Nancy Dixon teaches English and chairs the English Program at Dillard University. She has edited several books about New Orleans, its literature, and history, and she served as executive editor of New Orleans & The World: 1718-2018 Tricentennial Anthology. Leslie Petty is professor of English and the T.K. Young Chair of English Literature at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in journals such as Studies in the American Short Story and Legacy. She also serves as executive coordinator for the American Literature Association.

"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 Sheer Indefinite: Selected Poems, 1991–2011

• IntroductionNancy Dixon and Leslie PettyPart One: Prose1. Blake in the Crescent City: Martin R. Delany Reimagines Antebellum RadicalismPaul Fess2. Moral Contagion: Yellow Fever and the Moral Character of New OrleansKathleen Downes3. "The Voice of the Sea": The Specter of Transatlantic Slavery in The AwakeningCarina Evans Hoffpauir4. "Moving from the Inside Out": Malwida von Meysenburg and the Portrayal of a New Feminine Experience in The Awakening"Heidi Podlasli-Labrenz5. "The Unjust Spirit of Caste" in Charles W. Chesnutt’s and George Washington Cable’s New Orleans NovelsMatthew Teutsch6. More than One City of New Orleans: Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston’s Crescent CityRuth R. Caillouet7. New Orleans in Walker Percy’s Works: Place, Placement, Nonplacement, and MisplacementEdward J. DupuyPart Two: Poetry8. Les Cenelles and CensorshipNancy Dixon9. (Re)mapping the Colonial City: Joy Harjo’s Composite Poetic in "New Orleans"Tierney S. Powell10. A Cabdriver Sings the Blues: Mem Shannon’s Articulation of Urban Life and Working-Class Resistance in Late Twentieth-Century New OrleansMarcus Charles Tribbett11. Slave-Bricked Streets and Women’s Work: The Practiced Place of Brenda Marie Osbey’s New OrleansShari Evans12. Demythologizing the New Orleans "Octoroon": Natasha Trethewey's Bellocq's OpheliaMary C. Carruth13. "Because We Need to Hurt in Public": Embodying the Spectacle of Hurricane Katrina’s Black Suffering in Patricia Smith’s Blood DazzlerShanna M. SalinasAbout the ContributorsIndex

Nancy Dixon teaches English and chairs the English Program at Dillard University. She has edited several books about New Orleans, its literature, and history, and she served as executive editor of New Orleans & The World: 1718-2018 Tricentennial Anthology. Leslie Petty is professor of English and the T.K. Young Chair of English Literature at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in journals such as Studies in the American Short Story and Legacy. She also serves as executive coordinator for the American Literature Association.

"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 Sheer Indefinite: Selected Poems, 1991–2011

• IntroductionNancy Dixon and Leslie PettyPart One: Prose1. Blake in the Crescent City: Martin R. Delany Reimagines Antebellum RadicalismPaul Fess2. Moral Contagion: Yellow Fever and the Moral Character of New OrleansKathleen Downes3. "The Voice of the Sea": The Specter of Transatlantic Slavery in The AwakeningCarina Evans Hoffpauir4. "Moving from the Inside Out": Malwida von Meysenburg and the Portrayal of a New Feminine Experience in The Awakening"Heidi Podlasli-Labrenz5. "The Unjust Spirit of Caste" in Charles W. Chesnutt’s and George Washington Cable’s New Orleans NovelsMatthew Teutsch6. More than One City of New Orleans: Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston’s Crescent CityRuth R. Caillouet7. New Orleans in Walker Percy’s Works: Place, Placement, Nonplacement, and MisplacementEdward J. DupuyPart Two: Poetry8. Les Cenelles and CensorshipNancy Dixon9. (Re)mapping the Colonial City: Joy Harjo’s Composite Poetic in "New Orleans"Tierney S. Powell10. A Cabdriver Sings the Blues: Mem Shannon’s Articulation of Urban Life and Working-Class Resistance in Late Twentieth-Century New OrleansMarcus Charles Tribbett11. Slave-Bricked Streets and Women’s Work: The Practiced Place of Brenda Marie Osbey’s New OrleansShari Evans12. Demythologizing the New Orleans "Octoroon": Natasha Trethewey's Bellocq's OpheliaMary C. Carruth13. "Because We Need to Hurt in Public": Embodying the Spectacle of Hurricane Katrina’s Black Suffering in Patricia Smith’s Blood DazzlerShanna M. SalinasAbout the ContributorsIndex

Nancy Dixon teaches English and chairs the English Program at Dillard University. She has edited several books about New Orleans, its literature, and history, and she served as executive editor of New Orleans & The World: 1718-2018 Tricentennial Anthology. Leslie Petty is professor of English and the T.K. Young Chair of English Literature at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in journals such as Studies in the American Short Story and Legacy. She also serves as executive coordinator for the American Literature Association.

"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 Sheer Indefinite: Selected Poems, 1991–2011

• IntroductionNancy Dixon and Leslie PettyPart One: Prose1. Blake in the Crescent City: Martin R. Delany Reimagines Antebellum RadicalismPaul Fess2. Moral Contagion: Yellow Fever and the Moral Character of New OrleansKathleen Downes3. "The Voice of the Sea": The Specter of Transatlantic Slavery in The AwakeningCarina Evans Hoffpauir4. "Moving from the Inside Out": Malwida von Meysenburg and the Portrayal of a New Feminine Experience in The Awakening"Heidi Podlasli-Labrenz5. "The Unjust Spirit of Caste" in Charles W. Chesnutt’s and George Washington Cable’s New Orleans NovelsMatthew Teutsch6. More than One City of New Orleans: Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston’s Crescent CityRuth R. Caillouet7. New Orleans in Walker Percy’s Works: Place, Placement, Nonplacement, and MisplacementEdward J. DupuyPart Two: Poetry8. Les Cenelles and CensorshipNancy Dixon9. (Re)mapping the Colonial City: Joy Harjo’s Composite Poetic in "New Orleans"Tierney S. Powell10. A Cabdriver Sings the Blues: Mem Shannon’s Articulation of Urban Life and Working-Class Resistance in Late Twentieth-Century New OrleansMarcus Charles Tribbett11. Slave-Bricked Streets and Women’s Work: The Practiced Place of Brenda Marie Osbey’s New OrleansShari Evans12. Demythologizing the New Orleans "Octoroon": Natasha Trethewey's Bellocq's OpheliaMary C. Carruth13. "Because We Need to Hurt in Public": Embodying the Spectacle of Hurricane Katrina’s Black Suffering in Patricia Smith’s Blood DazzlerShanna M. SalinasAbout the ContributorsIndex