Inventing New Orleans : Writings of Lafcadio Hearn.
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Inventing New Orleans : Writings of Lafcadio Hearn.
Yazar:
Starr, S. Frederick.
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9781604736328
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1 online resource (193 pages)
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowlegments -- Introduction: The Man Who Invented New Orleans -- I. The Outsider as Insider: Impressions -- Memphis to New Orleans -- At the Gate of the Tropics -- The City of the South -- The Streets -- The French Market -- Los Criollos -- New Orleans in Wet Weather -- New Orleans Letter -- New Orleans in Carnival Garb -- The Last of the New Orleans Fencing Masters -- Under the Oaks -- Executions -- The Creole Doctor: Some Curiosities of Medicine in Louisiana -- The Death of Marie Laveau -- St. John's Eve-Voudouism -- The Last of the Voudoos -- The Garden of Paradise -- Saint Maló: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana -- Rod and Gun -- II. From the Land of Dreams: Sketches -- Voices of Dawn -- Char-Coal -- The Flower Sellers -- Cakes and Candy -- Washerwomen -- Des Perches -- Shine? -- The Man with the Small Electric Machine -- Under the Electric Light -- --! --!! Mosquitoes!!! -- The Festive -- The Wolfish Dog -- The Go-at -- The Alligators -- Wet Enough For You? -- Web-Footed -- A Creole Type -- Complaint of a Creole Boarding-House Keeper -- The Boarder's Reply -- A Kentucky Colonel Renting Rooms -- The Restless Boarder -- Furnished Rooms -- Ghosteses -- A Creole Journal -- Ultra-Canal -- An Ultra-Canal Talk -- Why Crabs Are Boiled Alive -- Creole Servant Girls -- The Creole Character -- All Saints! -- Does Climate Affect the Character of People? -- The City of Dreams -- A Dream of Kites -- The Tale of a Fan -- Les Coulisses (The French Opera) -- French Opera -- Down Among the Dives: A Midnight Sketch -- Fire! -- That Piano Organ -- A Creole Courtyard -- The Accursed Fig Tree -- Home -- A Visitor -- Opening Oysters -- By the Murmuring Waves -- Spanish Moss -- The Lord Sends Trials and Tribulations to Strengthen and Pacify Our Hearts -- Ye Pilot -- III. Of Vices and Virtues: Editorials -- Latin and Anglo-Saxon.
French in Louisiana -- Jewish Emigrants for Louisiana -- Quack! Quack! -- The Opium Dens -- Scénes de la Vie des Hoodlums -- Blackmailing -- The Indignant Dead -- Improved Police Ideas -- Coming Events Cast Their Shadow Before -- A Visit to New Orleans -- Whited Sepulchres -- Old-Fashioned Houses -- La Douane -- The Haunted and the Haunters -- The Unspeakable Velocipede -- The Organ Grinder -- The Puller of Noses -- The Glamour of New Orleans -- The Dawn of the Carnival -- The Pelican's Ghost -- IV. Reports from the Field: Longer Studies -- La Cuisine Créole -- Gombo Zhèbes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects -- Notes on Sources.
Özet:
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown. In ten years of serving as a correspondent and selling his writing in such periodicals as the New Orleans Daily Item, Times-Democrat, Harper's Weekly, and Scribner's Magazine he crystallized the way Americans view New Orleans and its south Louisiana environs. Hearn was prolific, producing colorful and vivid sketches, vignettes, news articles, essays, translations of French and Spanish literature, book reviews, short stories, and woodblock prints. He haunted the French Quarter to cover such events as the death of Marie Laveau. His descriptions of the seamy side of New Orleans, tainted with voodoo, debauchery, and mystery made a lasting impression on the nation. Denizens of the Crescent City and devotees who flock there for escapades and pleasures will recognize these original tales of corruption, of decay and benign frivolity, and of endless partying. With his writing, Hearn virtually invented the national image of New Orleans as a kind of alternative reality to the United States as a whole. S. Frederick Starr, a leading authority on New Orleans and Louisiana culture, edits the volume, adding an introduction that places Hearn in a social, historical, and literary context. Hearn was sensitive to the unique cultural milieu of New Orleans and Louisiana. During the decade that he spent in New Orleans, Hearn collected songs for the well-known New York music critic Henry Edward Krehbiel and extensively studied Creole French, making valuable and lasting contributions to ethnomusicology and linguistics. Hearn's writings on Japan are famous and have long been available. But Inventing New Orleans: Writings of
Lafcadio Hearn brings together a selection of Hearn's nonfiction on New Orleans and Louisiana, creating a previously unavailable sampling. In these pieces Hearn, an Anglo-Greek immigrant who came to America by way of Ireland, is alternately playful, lyrical, and morbid. This gathering also features ten newly discovered sketches. Using his broad stylistic palette, Hearn conjures up a lost New Orleans which later writers such as William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams used to evoke the city as both reality and symbol. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a prolific writer, critic, amateur engraver, and journalist. His many books-on a diverse range of subjects-include La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes (1885), Gombo Zhebes (1885), Chita (1889), and Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894). S. Frederick Starr is chair of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University. His previous writings on Louisiana culture include New Orleans Unmasqued (1989), Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans (1998), and Louis Moreau Gottschalk (2000).
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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