Arin Keeble is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He has published widely on the representation of terrorism and disaster and has published in scholarly journals including Modern Language Review, European Journal of American Culture, Comparative American Studies, Canadian Review of American Studies and Punk and Post-Punk.

• 1. Introduction: Narrating Katrina in Context.- 2. Intertextuality, Domesticity and the Spaces of Disaster in Salvage the Bones and Zeitoun.- 3. 'Won’t Bow: Don’t Know How': New Orleans and American Exceptionalism in Treme.- 4. Disposability, Criminality and Lawlessness in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Beasts of the Southern Wild and When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.

Arin Keeble is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He has published widely on the representation of terrorism and disaster and has published in scholarly journals including Modern Language Review, European Journal of American Culture, Comparative American Studies, Canadian Review of American Studies and Punk and Post-Punk.

• 1. Introduction: Narrating Katrina in Context.- 2. Intertextuality, Domesticity and the Spaces of Disaster in Salvage the Bones and Zeitoun.- 3. 'Won’t Bow: Don’t Know How': New Orleans and American Exceptionalism in Treme.- 4. Disposability, Criminality and Lawlessness in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Beasts of the Southern Wild and When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.

Arin Keeble is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He has published widely on the representation of terrorism and disaster and has published in scholarly journals including Modern Language Review, European Journal of American Culture, Comparative American Studies, Canadian Review of American Studies and Punk and Post-Punk.

• 1. Introduction: Narrating Katrina in Context.- 2. Intertextuality, Domesticity and the Spaces of Disaster in Salvage the Bones and Zeitoun.- 3. 'Won’t Bow: Don’t Know How': New Orleans and American Exceptionalism in Treme.- 4. Disposability, Criminality and Lawlessness in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Beasts of the Southern Wild and When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.