Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context

Literature, Film and Television

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

This book analyzes six key narratives of Hurricane Katrina across literature, film and television from the literary fiction of Jesmyn Ward to the cinema of Spike Lee.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-13
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:308 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:136
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030163525

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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.

Innehållsförteckning

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.