Book contents
- New Orleans
- New Orleans
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Swamp City
- Chapter 2 Mixed Motives
- Chapter 3 “As I Have Seen and Known It”
- Chapter 4 What New Orleans Meant to Walt Whitman
- Chapter 5 Coloring Sex, Love, and Desire in Creole New Orleans’s Long Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 6 The White Creole Tradition
- Chapter 7 The Civil War’s Literary Aftershocks
- Chapter 8 Illusion and Disillusion
- Chapter 9 Local Color, Social Problems, and the Living Dead in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Chapter 10 Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier, and the Predicament of the Intellectual Woman in New Orleans
- Chapter 11 Converging Americas
- Chapter 12 A Jazz Origin Myth
- Chapter 13 “Stepping Out” of the Storyville Frame
- Chapter 14 Louis Armstrong’s Autobiographical Art
- Chapter 15 New Orleans, Modernism, and The Double Dealer, 1921–1926
- Chapter 16 “Because What Else Could He Have Hoped to Find in New Orleans, If Not the Truth”
- Chapter 17 “The Place I Was Made For”
- Chapter 18 A Civil Rights–Era Novel of the American Civil War
- Chapter 19 How to Survive the Best Environments
- Chapter 20 Tom Dent and the Development of Black Literature in New Orleans
- Chapter 21 The Gothic Tradition in New Orleans
- Chapter 22 A Flaneur in the French Quarter and Beyond
- Chapter 23 Literary Fiction by New Orleans Women, 1961–2003
- Chapter 24 Asian American New Orleans
- Chapter 25 New Orleans Rap and Bounce
- Chapter 26 The Literature of Hurricane Katrina
- Chapter 27 Swan Song?
- Index
Chapter 11 - Converging Americas
New Orleans in Spanish-Language and Latina/o/x Literary Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2019
- New Orleans
- New Orleans
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Swamp City
- Chapter 2 Mixed Motives
- Chapter 3 “As I Have Seen and Known It”
- Chapter 4 What New Orleans Meant to Walt Whitman
- Chapter 5 Coloring Sex, Love, and Desire in Creole New Orleans’s Long Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 6 The White Creole Tradition
- Chapter 7 The Civil War’s Literary Aftershocks
- Chapter 8 Illusion and Disillusion
- Chapter 9 Local Color, Social Problems, and the Living Dead in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Chapter 10 Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier, and the Predicament of the Intellectual Woman in New Orleans
- Chapter 11 Converging Americas
- Chapter 12 A Jazz Origin Myth
- Chapter 13 “Stepping Out” of the Storyville Frame
- Chapter 14 Louis Armstrong’s Autobiographical Art
- Chapter 15 New Orleans, Modernism, and The Double Dealer, 1921–1926
- Chapter 16 “Because What Else Could He Have Hoped to Find in New Orleans, If Not the Truth”
- Chapter 17 “The Place I Was Made For”
- Chapter 18 A Civil Rights–Era Novel of the American Civil War
- Chapter 19 How to Survive the Best Environments
- Chapter 20 Tom Dent and the Development of Black Literature in New Orleans
- Chapter 21 The Gothic Tradition in New Orleans
- Chapter 22 A Flaneur in the French Quarter and Beyond
- Chapter 23 Literary Fiction by New Orleans Women, 1961–2003
- Chapter 24 Asian American New Orleans
- Chapter 25 New Orleans Rap and Bounce
- Chapter 26 The Literature of Hurricane Katrina
- Chapter 27 Swan Song?
- Index
Summary
The exceptionalism of New Orleans from the perspective of the United States is reversed when considered from the perspective of major cities along the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico, cities that, as New Orleans once did, formed part of the Spanish empire. Though this legacy has not been foregrounded in recent decades the way the city’s ties to France have been, major literary activity in Spanish has been associated with New Orleans since the career of Eusebio Gómez in the 1840s, perhaps reaching a peak in the first decades of the twentieth century with the rise of the New Orleans–based magazine, El Mercurio, which served as an important incubator of Modernism in the Spanish-speaking world.
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- New OrleansA Literary History, pp. 137 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019