Southern Cultures (Summer 2008): Katrina

Chapel Hill: American South. Near Fine. 2008. (Vol. 14, No. 2). Journal. [virtually as new, with just tiny bumping to t5he upper right corner of the front cover and the lower corner of the rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Special issue devoted entirely to essays examining multiple aspects of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the Gulf region. The essays: "Always the Tragic Jezebel: New Orleans, Katrina, and the Layered Discourse of a Doomed Southern City" (Michael P. Bibler); "Storm Journal: The Story of the Bay Town Inn" (Ellis Anderson); "What Was Found" (Maura Fitzgerald); "Home at the Mouth of the Mississippi" (Judith A. Howard); "Broken Levees, Broken Lives, and a Broken Nation after Hurricane Katrina" (Karen M. O'Neill); "Through a Purple (Green and Gold) Haze: New Orleans Mardi Gras in the American Imagination" (Anthony J. Stanonis). There is also a poem, "Is for, to Hold," by Bob Hicok, and a review of the book "Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita." .