Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City

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Routledge, Oct 27, 2005 - Literary Criticism - 296 pages
This is an expansive interpretation of New Orleans – America’s most unique city. Eckstein pursues meanings of the phrase ‘sustaining New Orleans’ from the images that remain through media activities to the competing demands of social justice.
 

Contents

Preface
The Claims for New Orleanss Exceptionalism
The Decline of the New Orleans Streetcar and
A Walking Tour on the Wild Side
Dr Percys Moviegoer and Public Health in New Orleans
The Place of New Orleanss Black
The World of Anne Rice and the Promise
Sister Helen the Dead Men and the Folk of
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Barbara Eckstein is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume on urban planning and sustainability for MIT Press. She published her first book with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1990.

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