Literary New Orleans in the Modern World

These essays explore the belletristic Crescent City - its history, authors, myths, and realities. This volume focuses on twentieth-century New Orleans, beginning with modernism's brief blooming in the 1920s, followed by the fading of New Orleans' peculiarly dreamy romanticism and the flourishing of a distinctive realism, and concluding with a recurrence and transformation of the earlier romantic strain in contemporary Gothic and mystery fiction.

Preface

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The Most Civilized Spot in America: Sherwood Anderson in New Orleans

WALTER B. RIDEOUT

The Double Dealer and the Little-Magazine Tradition in New Orleans

THOMAS BONNER, JR.

23

(13)

Paris in My Own Backyard: Hamilton Basso

INEZ HOLLANDER LAKE

36

(18)

Fillalloo Bird of New Orleans: Lillian Hellman

MAUREEN RYAN

54

(12)

The Neo-African Vatican: Zora Neale Hurston's New Orleans

DAVID C. ESTES

66

(17)

Shared Traditions and Common Concerns: The African American Literary Community in Twentieth-Century New Orleans

VIOLET HARRINGTON BRYAN

83

(19)

Another Kind of Confederacy: John Kennedy Toole

W. KENNETH HOLDITCH

102

(21)

Roadwalker in the Magic Kingdom: Shirley Ann Grau

THOMAS J. RICHARDSON

123

(13)

Latter-Day Creoles: A New Age of New Orleans Literature

W. KENNETH HOLDITCH

136

(31)

Contributors

167

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Literary New Orleans in the Modern World

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