Ten years after Katrina : critical perspectives of the storm's effect on American culture and identity / edited by Mary Ruth Marotte and Glenn Jellenik.
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TextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages)Content type: - text
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- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects
- Disasters -- Social aspects -- United States
- Disasters in literature
- Disasters in art
- Disasters -- Press coverage
- Mass media and culture -- United States
- United States -- Civilization -- 21st century
- Ouragan Katrina, 2005 -- Aspect social
- Catastrophes -- Aspect social -- États-Unis
- Catastrophes dans la littérature
- Catastrophes dans l'art
- Catastrophes -- Couverture de presse
- Médias et culture -- États-Unis
- États-Unis -- Civilisation -- 21e siècle
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General
- Civilization
- Disasters in art
- Disasters in literature
- Disasters -- Press coverage
- Disasters -- Social aspects
- Mass media and culture
- Social aspects
- United States
- Hurricane Katrina (2005)
- 2000-2099
- 973.93 23
- HV636 2005.G85
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pt. I TESTIMONY -- 1. Disaster's Ethics of Literature: Voicing Katrina's Stories in a Digital Age / Joseph Donica -- 2. Dramatic "Belated Immediacy" in John Biguenet's Rising Water Trilogy / Daisy Pignetti -- 3. "The Storm": Spatial Discourses and Katrina Narratives in David Simon's Treme (2010 -- 2013) / Michael Samuel -- 4. Shattered Reflections: One D.O.A., One on the Way, Short-Short Stories and Enacting Trauma / Laura Tansley -- 5. Bearing Witness to the Dispossessed: Natasha Tretheway's Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast / Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza -- 6. Subversive Interpellation: Voices of Protest Out of "the storm called ... America" / Glenn Jellenik -- pt. II CULTURAL IDENTITY -- 7. Katrina Stories Get Graphic in A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge / Kate Parker Horigan -- 8. Displacement and Dispossession: The Plantation Regime as a Disaster Discourse in Rosalyn Story's Wading Home (2010) / Florian Freitag.
9. Dave Eggers' Zeitoun and Katrina's Southern Biopolitics / Christopher Lloyd -- 10. Katrina Time: An Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun / A.G. Keeble -- 11. The Camera as Corrective: Post-Photography, Disaster Networks, and the Afterimage of Hurricane Katrina / Thomas Stubblefield -- 12. Pregnancies, Storms, and Legacies of Loss in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Mary Ruth Marotte -- 13. Re-shaping the Narrative: Pulling Focus/Pushing Boundaries in Fictional Representations of Hurricane Katrina / Glenn Jellenik.
This collection charts the effects of hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it. <br /> <br />
English.
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