After the deluge: The post-katrina cultural revival of new orleans

Journal of American Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 483-501

  Taylor, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 78650117684     PISSN: 00218758     EISSN: 14695154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021875810001192     Document Type: Article

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1. Paul Gilroy, " Multiculture in Times of War: An Inaugural Lecture Given at the London School of Economics," Critical Quarterly, 48, 4 (Winter 2006), 29.
2. This was later reworked by Robert Plant for Led Zeppelin, and for his Raising Sand tour with Alison Krauss, 2008
3. This was later reworked by Robert Plant for Led Zeppelin, 1971, and for his Raising Sand tour with Alison Krauss, 2008;
4. by Bob Dylan in "The Levee's Gonna Break, " 2006;
5. and by many singers such as John Paul Jones, Rosetta Stone and Tori Amos.
6. James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown (London: Orion Books, 2007), 2.
7. Irma Thomas quoted in John Harris, "We All Gonna Have a Good Time," The Guardian, 18 Nov. 2005, Film and Music section, 6.
8. Professor Jay Edwards, "A Cultural Geography of the Shotgun House in New Orleans: Implications for Strategies of Katrina Recovery," at The Cultures of Rebuilding in Post-Katrina New Orleans conference, Louisiana State Museum, 7 Nov. 2008.
9. Harris, 6.
10. For example, The Great Deluge ; Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster ; Code Blue : A Katrina Physician's Memoir; Katrina Chronicles ; There is no Such Thing as a Natural Disaster (ed. Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires);
11. The Dogs Who Found Me; Rescued (about animals) ; Path of Destruction ; Missing New Orleans ; Voices from the Storm ; and Spoiled (images of refrigerators).
12. Some of the best collections are Rosemary James, ed., My New Orleans : Ballads to the Big Easy by her Sons, Daughters, and Lovers (New York: Touchstone, 2006);
13. Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic (New Orleans: Chris Rose Books, 2005);
14. Andrei Codrescu, New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006);
15. And (a more scholarly collection) Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires, ed., There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster : Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina (New York: Routledge, 2006).
16. Steven Maklansky, ed., Katrina Exposed: A Photographic Reckoning : New Orleans in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2006), n.p.
17. See, for instance, the acclaimed study by Dan Baum, (New York: Spiegel and Grau,);
18. and the brilliant poetry collection by New York-based Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2008).
19. See www.prospectneworleans.org, p. 1, Overview. Last accessed 10 March 2010.
20. Roberta Smith, "Kaleidoscopic Biennial for a Scarred City, " New York Times, 4 Nov. 2008, C1.
21. Nik Cohn, Triksta : Life and Death and New Orleans Rap (London: Vintage, 2006; first published 2005), 243, original emphasis.
22. Julie Smith, Louisiana Lament (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2004), 1.
23. For example, William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, the New Orleans paintings of Edgar Degas, the many iconic films focussing on the city such as Jezebel, King Creole, Easy Rider, The Big Easy, and the British cinema "Hurricane" advertising campaign.
24. See Helen Taylor, Circling Dixie: Contemporary Southern Culture through a Transatlantic Lens (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001), chapter 4, esp. 125.
25. Mike Tidwell, Bayou Farewell : The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast (New York: Random House, 2003).
26. Mike Tidwell, The Ravaging Tide : Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities (New York: Free Press, 2006), 5.
27. Marsalis quoted in James, My New Orleans, 29.
28. The Classical Theatre of Harlem also produced an acclaimed version of Godot outdoors in New Orleans's flooded Ninth Ward in 2007.
29. Rose, 1 Dead in Attic, 154.
30. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the organization that so badly neglected the city in its first flooded weeks (identified strongly, by audiences at the Classical Theatre of Harlem production, with the figure of Godot).
31. Jeff Duncan, at http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tpupdates/index.ssf?/mtlogs/ nola-tpupdates/archives/. Last accessed 10 March 2010
32. The Saints boosted the city's morale even more in 2010 when they won the Superbowl for the first time ever.
33. Jonathan Holmes, Katrina : A Play of New Orleans, Bargehouse, South Bank, 1-26 Sept. 2009;
34. quotations from Holmes, "Theatre and Experience," in idem, Katrina (London: Methuen, 2009), n.p.
35. James, 29, 58, 31.
36. See www.cacno.org/culturalcoalition/. Last accessed 10 March 2010.
37. Codrescu, New Orleans, Mon Amour, 264.
38. Quoted in Barbara Eckstein, Sustaining New Orleans : Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City (New York and London: Routledge, 2006), 59.
39. Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell : The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster (New York: Viking, 2009).
40. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (London: Penguin Books, 1990; first published 1963), 71. Hereafter cited by page numbers in the text.