{"product_id":"voices-and-visions-essays-on-new-orleanss-literary-history-hardback-9781496853639","title":"Voices and Visions; Essays on New Orleans's Literary History (Hardback) 9781496853639","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVoices and Visions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on New Orleans's Literary History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNancy Dixon (Edited by), Leslie Petty (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496853639\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"These essays depict New Orleans, with its interplay of races, cultures, and classes; its reputation for open morality; and its history, both as part of the United States and its relationship to the Caribbean, as a dynamic site with diverse but profound influence on a variety of important writers. \"- Skip Fox, professor emeritus at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and author of \u003ci\u003eSheer Indefinite: Selected Poems, 1991–2011\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir, Leslie Petty, Heidi Podlasi-Labrenz, Tierney S. Powell, Shanna M. Salinas, Matthew Teutsch, and Marcus Charles Tribbett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVoices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History \u003c\/i\u003eexamines a rich combination of writers and texts, from antebellum works like Martin R. Delany’s novel, \u003ci\u003eBlake\u003c\/i\u003e, and the poetry of\u003ci\u003e Les Cenelles\u003c\/i\u003e to Patricia Smith’s recent collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eBlood Dazzler\u003c\/i\u003e. The thirteen essays in \u003ci\u003eVoices and Visions \u003c\/i\u003etreat two hundred years of literature and include discussions on canonical, contemporary, and experimental writers. Authors often associated with New Orleans such as Kate Chopin, George Washington Cable, and Walker Percy are treated in new ways, as are well-known writers who are not often thought of in relation to the city: Charles Chesnutt, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, and Joy Harjo. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining this wide array of voices demonstrates the myriad ways New Orleans’s storied past has affected its present. Scholars find enduring themes—race, gender, religion, disease, art—but do so in the context of emerging conversations. Essayists in the volume address such topics as New Orleans as part of the global South and the Black diaspora, the transformation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and the recovery of previously lost voices, including those of Native Americans and immigrants. They also discuss the legacy of pandemics and racial violence that in more recent years has been manifest in the COVID-19 outbreak and the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNancy Dixon and Leslie Petty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Prose\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. \u003ci\u003eBlake\u003c\/i\u003e in the Crescent City: Martin R. Delany Reimagines Antebellum Radicalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul Fess\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Moral Contagion: Yellow Fever and the Moral Character of New Orleans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKathleen Downes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. \"The Voice of the Sea\": The Specter of Transatlantic Slavery in \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarina Evans Hoffpauir\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. \"Moving from the Inside Out\": Malwida von Meysenburg and the Portrayal of a New    Feminine Experience in \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeidi Podlasli-Labrenz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. \"The Unjust Spirit of Caste\" in Charles W. Chesnutt’\u003cbr\u003es and George Washington Cable’\u003cbr\u003es New Orleans Novels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatthew Teutsch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. More than One City of New Orleans: Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston’\u003cbr\u003es Crescent City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRuth R. Caillouet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. New Orleans in Walker Percy’\u003cbr\u003es Works: Place, Placement, Nonplacement, and Misplacement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEdward J. Dupuy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. \u003ci\u003eLes Cenelles\u003c\/i\u003e and Censorship\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNancy Dixon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. (Re)mapping the Colonial City: Joy Harjo’\u003cbr\u003es Composite Poetic in \"New Orleans\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTierney S. Powell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. A Cabdriver Sings the Blues: Mem Shannon’\u003cbr\u003es Articulation of Urban Life and Working-Class Resistance in Late Twentieth-Century New Orleans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarcus Charles Tribbett\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Slave-Bricked Streets and Women’\u003cbr\u003es Work: The Practiced Place of Brenda Marie Osbey’\u003cbr\u003es New Orleans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShari Evans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Demythologizing the New Orleans \"Octoroon\": Natasha Trethewey'\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eBellocq'\u003cbr\u003es Ophelia\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMary C. Carruth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. \"Because We Need to Hurt in Public\": Embodying the Spectacle of Hurricane Katrina’\u003cbr\u003es Black Suffering in Patricia Smith’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eBlood Dazzler\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShanna M. Salinas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607717179672,"sku":"9781496853639","price":60.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/voices-and-visions-essays-on-new-orleanss-literary-history-hardback-9781496853639","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}