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The Cambridge companion to the literature of New Orleans / edited by T. R. Johnson, Matthew Paul Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Literature and society--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Literature and society.
- New Orleans (La.)--In literature.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "This book will interest readers whose imagination has been sparked by one of the most storied cities in the world - New Orleans - and give those readers useful contexts and perspectives for exploring its vast literary treasures, from the established classics to those extraordinary works known only locally"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by T. R. Johnson and Matthew Paul Smith
- Performing Native American sovereignty in early New Orleans / by Daniel Usner
- Suffer little children : orphans, epidemics, and gothic memory in 19th century New Orleans / by Kathryn Olivarius
- Kate Chopin and the feminist legacy in New Orleans fiction / by Alison Graham-Bertolini
- A post-Creole French Quarter Bohemia in the 1920s / by Taylor Hagood
- A literary rarity : Lyle Saxon's Mardi Gras narrative / by James W. Thomas
- 'So big with it' : Tennessee Williams and operatic excess / by Matthew Paul Smith
- Queering the Crescent City: three centuries of LGBTQ literature in New Orleans / by Robert Azzarrello
- Mid 20th-century 'cool' in four New Orleans novels / by Joel Dinerstein
- Bob Kaufman : a Black, beat legend / by Mona Lisa Saloy
- Isleño décimas as literary tradition in southeast Louisiana / by Samantha Perez
- The (il)legibility of the archive : literature of Asian migration in New Orleans / by Marguerite Nguyen
- Toward a history of Black poetry in New Orleans : origins, parameters, reflections / by T. R. Johnson
- Home, bittersweet home : Black women writing time and displacement post-Katrina / by Ebony Perro.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-64535-8
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