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Author Dickel, Simon

Title After the Storm : the Cultural Politics of Hurricane Katrina
Published Bielefeld : Transcript, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages)
Series American Culture Studies ; v. 10
American studies (Transcript (Firm))
Contents Cover After the Storm; Contents; Introduction: The Fire Next Time; New Orleans Suite: A Photographic Essay; Documenting Stories of Reconstruction in New Orleans: Spike Lee and Jonathan Demme; Recycling and Surviving in Beasts of the Southern Wild: Screening Katrina as a Magic Realist Tale; Down in the Treme: Televising Man-made Natural Disaster in the New Millennium; Where They At? Bounce and Class in Treme; Dance Back From the Grave: Marc Cohn's and Jackson Browne's Musical Responses to Hurricane Katrina
Revisiting Place, the Memorial, and the Historical in Tom Piazza's Why New Orleans Matters and Natasha Trethewey s Beyond KatrinaNatural Hazards, Human Vulnerability: Teaching Hurricane Katrina Through Literary Nonfiction; Where Y'at Since the Storm?: Linguistic Effects of Hurricane Katrina; Life and Luck after Katrina: African American Men, Oral History, and Mentoring in New Orleans, 2010 to 2014; The Landscapes of Man: Ecological and Cultural Change Before Hurricane Katrina; Authors
Summary "After the Storm" traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005, its devastating consequences for the region, for New Orleans, and the United States have been negotiated in a growing number of cultural productions - among them Spike Lee's documentary film "When the Levees Broke", David Simon and Eric Overmyer's TV series "Treme", or Natasha Trethewey's poetry collection "Beyond Katrina". This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on these and other approaches to Hurricane Katrina and puts special emphasis on the intersect
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Subject Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Political aspects -- United States
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects -- United States
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- In literature
Emergency management -- Political aspects -- United States
Emergency management -- Political aspects -- Louisiana
Disaster relief -- Political aspects -- United States
Disaster relief -- Political aspects -- Louisiana
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Disaster relief -- Political aspects
Literature
Politics and government
Social aspects
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001002071
Subject Louisiana
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Kindinger, Evangelia
ISBN 9783839428931
3839428939