Always the tragic Jezebel: New Orleans, Katrina, and the layered discourse of a doomed southern city.(Critical essay)

Southern Cultures | June 22, 2008| | Copyright

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Consider the following narrative: Just before the disaster hit New Orleans, authorities urged every able citizen to leave at once. Those with means fled to safer ground outside the city, while the recalcitrant and the poor stayed behind. Then, almost immediately, the disaster struck, spawning terror and chaos and sending city leaders scrambling for a plan. They sealed of all the roads and waterways and forbade anyone to enter or leave New Orleans without a pass from the governor. Officials in the outlying parishes had orders to shoot anyone who ...

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