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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 /> |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hurricane Katrina (2005) |
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
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Disasters -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Disasters -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Disasters. |
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Disasters in literature.
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Disasters in literature. |
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Disasters in art.
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Disasters in art. |
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Disasters -- Press coverage.
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Disasters -- Press coverage. |
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Mass media and culture -- United States.
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Mass media and culture. |
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United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Marotte, Mary Ruth, editor.
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Jellenik, Glenn, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ten years after Katrina 9780739192689 (DLC) 2014038335 (OCoLC)892304857 |
| ISBN |
9780739192696 (electronic book) |
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0739192698 (electronic book) |
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9780739192689 |
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073919268X |
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