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Remaking New Orleans beyond exceptionalism and authenticity
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The contributors to Remaking New Orleans challenge the uncritical acceptance of New Orleans-as-exceptional narratives, showing how they flatten the diversity, experience, and culture of the city's ...
The contributors to Remaking New Orleans challenge the uncritical acceptance of New Orleans-as-exceptional narratives, showing how they flatten the diversity, experience, and culture of the city's residents and obscure other possible understandings.
Details
- Creator
- Thomas Jessen Adams & Matt Sakakeeny, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2019
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 9781478003328, 1478003324, 9781478001829, 1478001828, 9781478002871, 1478002875, 9781478001829
- OCLC
- on1167535075
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- La Catrina : the Mexican specter of New Orleans / Shannon Lee Dawdy -- Charles Gayarré and the imagining of an exceptional city : the literary roots of the Creole city / Rien Fertel -- Phony city : under the skin of authenticity / Aaron Nyerges -- "Things you'd imagine Zulu tribes to do" : the Zulu parade in New Orleans Carnival / Felipe Smith -- The saga of the junkyard dog / Bryan Wagner -- Local, native, Creole, Black : claiming belonging, producing autochthony / Helen A. Regis -- The contradictions of the film welfare economy, or, For the love of Treme / Vicki Mayer, Heidi Schmalbach, and Toby Miller -- "Queers, fairies, and ne'er-do-wells" : rethinking the notion of a sexually liberal New Orleans / Alecia Long -- Building Black suburbs in New Orleans / Vern Baxter and Maria Casati -- Refugee pastoralism : Vietnamese American self-representation in New Orleans / Marguerite Nguyen -- Boosting the private sector : Federal aid and downtown development in the 1970s / Megan French-Marcelin -- What's left for New Orleans? The people's reconstruction and the limits of Anarcho-Liberalism / Cedric G. Johnson -- Neoliberal futures : post-Katrina New Orleans, volunteers, and the ongoing allure of exceptionalism / Vincanne Adams -- The myth of authenticity and its impact on politics in New Orleans and beyond / Adolph Reed Jr