Hurricane Katrina: New Orleans Lost in Flood

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X75285

Keywords:

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Flood

Abstract

Translated by Idelber Avelar, a brief essay by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, taken from A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press, 2009). In the essay, Marcus and Sollors reflect on the political effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans – and on the United States – based on the rereading of literary works that dealt with previous climate catastrophes that befell the region.

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Author Biography

Werner Sollors, Harvard University

Doutorado na Freie Universität Berlin

References

BURKE, James Lee. The Tin Roof Blowdown (Robicheaux, Book 16). 2007.

FAULKNER, William. The Old Man. 1948.

HURSTON, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel. 1937.

Published

2008-06-08

How to Cite

Avelar, I. ., Marcus, G. ., & Sollors, W. (2008). Hurricane Katrina: New Orleans Lost in Flood. Literatura E Autoritarismo, (8), 102–106. https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X75285