Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context Literature, Film and Television /

• Main Author: Keeble, Arin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Motion pictures.; United States-Study and teaching.; Contemporary Literature.; Close Reading.; American Culture.

'This immensely thought-provoking study engages with the representation of Katrina across a variety of narrative forms - from the literary fiction of Jesmyn Ward to the cinema of Werner Herzog. In doing so, it reveals a series of compelling links between a diverse selection of texts and a power...

Table of Contents:

• 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.