Ten years after Katrina : critical perspectives of the storm's effect on American culture and identity / edited by Mary Ruth Marotte and Glenn Jellenik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marotte, Mary Ruth, editor.

Jellenik, Glenn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Social aspects.

Disasters--Social aspects--United States.

Disasters.

Disasters in literature.

Disasters in art.

Disasters--Press coverage.

Mass media and culture--United States.

Mass media and culture.

Civilization.

Disasters--Social aspects.

United States.

United States--Civilization--21st century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 246 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2015]

Summary:

This collection charts the effects of Hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalog the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in the literature and other media that represent it. The chapters in this volume raise new questions about the representative genres that structure our stories and the ways stories reflect and produce culture and identity. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Testimony 1

1 Disaster's Ethics of Literature: Voicing Katrina's Stories in a Digital Age / Joseph Donica Donica, Joseph 3

2 Dramatic "Belated Immediacy" in John Biguenet's Rising Water Trilogy / Daisy Pignetti Pignetti, Daisy 17

3 "The Storm": Spatial Discourses and Katrina Narratives in David Simon's Treme (2010-2013) / Michael Samuel Samuel, Michael 33

4 Shattered Reflections: One D.O.A., One on the Way, Short-Short Stories and Enacting Trauma / Laura Tansley Tansley, Laura 57

5 Bearing Witness to the Dispossessed: Natasha Tretheway's Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast / Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza Valenzuela-Mendoza, Eloisa 73

6 Subversive Interpellation: Voices of Protest Out of "the storm called ... America" / Glenn Jellenik Jellenik, Glenn 93

Part II Cultural Identity 107

7 Katrina Stories Get Graphic in A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge / Kate Parker Horigan Horigan, Kate Parker 109

8 Displacement and Dispossession: The Plantation Regime as a Disaster Discourse in Rosalyn Story's Wading Home (2010) / Florian Freitag Freitag, Florian 129

9 Dave Eggers' Zeitoun and Katrina's Southern Biopolitics / Christopher Lloyd Lloyd, Christopher 153

10 Katrina Time: An Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun / A. G. Keeble Keeble, A. G. 171

11 The Camera as Corrective: Post-Photography, Disaster Networks, and the Afterimage of Hurricane Katrina / Thomas Stubblefield Stubblefield, Thomas 191

12 Pregnancies, Storms, and Legacies of Loss in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Mary Ruth Marotte Marotte, Mary Ruth 207

13 Re-shaping the Narrative: Pulling Focus/Pushing Boundaries in Fictional Representations of Hurricane Katrina / Glenn Jellenik Jellenik, Glenn 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739192689

073919268X

OCLC:

901053970