After Katrina
Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century
1st Edition
Published on 25. January 2017
288 pages
978-1-4384-6419-0 (ISBN)
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Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Anna Hartnell is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and the author of Rewriting Exodus: American Futures from Du Bois to Obama.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Is This America?"
Part I: American Time
1. New Orleans and Empire: Legacies from the "Age of Revolution"
2. New Orleans and Americanization: "Progress," "Decline," and Tourism in the Twentieth Century
Part II: Katrina Time
3. Documenting Katrina: The Return of the "Real"
4. Resisting Katrina: The Right to Return
Part III: New Orleans Time
5. New Orleans and Water: Remapping Ecologies of the Gulf South
6. New Orleans and the Nation: Legacies from the Future
Notes
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Index
Introduction: "Is This America?"
Part I: American Time
1. New Orleans and Empire: Legacies from the "Age of Revolution"
2. New Orleans and Americanization: "Progress," "Decline," and Tourism in the Twentieth Century
Part II: Katrina Time
3. Documenting Katrina: The Return of the "Real"
4. Resisting Katrina: The Right to Return
Part III: New Orleans Time
5. New Orleans and Water: Remapping Ecologies of the Gulf South
6. New Orleans and the Nation: Legacies from the Future
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
