Ten Years after Katrina : Critical Perspectives of the Storm's Effect on American Culture and Identity.

Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Reading Hurricane Katrina -- Part I: Testimony -- 1 Disaster's Ethics of Literature: Voicing Katrina's Stories in a Digital Age -- 2 Dramatic "Belated Immediacy" in John Biguenet's Rising Water Trilogy -- 3 "The Storm": Spatial Discourses and Katrina Narratives in David Simon's Treme (2010-2013) -- 4 Shattered Reflections: One D.O.A., One on the Way, Short-Short Stories and Enacting Trauma -- 5 Bearing Witness to the Dispossessed: Natasha Tretheway's Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast -- 6 Subversive Interpellation: Voices of Protest Out of "the storm called . . . America" -- Part II: Cultural Identity -- 7 Katrina Stories Get Graphic in A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge -- 8 Displacement and Dispossession: The Plantation Regime as a Disaster Discourse in Rosalyn Story's Wading Home (2010) -- 9 Dave Eggers' Zeitoun and Katrina's Southern Biopolitics -- 10 Katrina Time: An Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun -- 11 The Camera as Corrective: Post-Photography, Disaster Networks, and the Afterimage of Hurricane Katrina -- 12 Pregnancies, Storms, and Legacies of Loss in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones -- 13 Re-shaping the Narrative: Pulling Focus/Pushing Boundaries in Fictional Representations of Hurricane Katrina -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This collection charts the effects of hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it.

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