Inventing New Orleans : Writings of Lafcadio Hearn /
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown. In ten years of serving as a correspondent and se...
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2001.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Man Who Invented New Orleans
- The Outsider as Insider: Impressions
- Memphis to New Orleans
- At the Gate of the Tropics
- The City of the South
- The Streets
- The French Market
- Los Criollos
- New Orleans in Wet Weather
- New Orleans Letter
- New Orleans in Carnival Garb
- The Last of the New Orleans Fencing Masters
- Under the Oaks
- Executions
- The Creole Doctor: Some Curiosities of Medicine in Louisiana
- The Death of Marie Laveau
- St. John's Eve--Voudouism
- The Last of the Voudoos
- The Garden of Paradise
- Saint Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana
- Rod and Gun
- From the Land of Dreams: Sketches
- Voices of Dawn
- Char-Coal
- The Flower Sellers
- Cakes and Candy
- Washerwomen
- Des Perches
- Shine?
- The Man with the Small Electric Machine
- Under the Electric Light
- __ __! __ __!! Mosquitoes!!!
- The Festive
- The Wolfish Dog
- The Go-at
- The Alligators
- Wet Enough For You?
- Web-Footed
- A Creole Type
- Complaint of a Creole Boarding-House Keeper
- The Boarder's Reply
- A Kentucky Colonel Renting Rooms
- The Restless Boarder
- Furnished Rooms
- Ghosteses
- A Creole Journal
- Ultra-Canal
- An Ultra-Canal Talk
- Why Crabs Are Boiled Alive
- Creole Servant Girls
- The Creole Character
- All Saints!
- Does Climate Affect the Character of People?
- The City of Dreams
- A Dream of Kites
- The Tale of a Fan
- Les Coulisses (The French Opera)
- French Opera
- Down Among the Dives: A Midnight Sketch
- Fire!