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This collection brings together thirty-five essays published over the past ten years, mostly in local New Orleans outlets. Most are about New Orleans culture and the differing ways in which the city is perceived by locals, visitors, distant onlookers, media creators, and scholars. Particular attention is given to the subject of how New Orleans identity has been shaped in the years since Hurricane Katrina. Some of the essays are more broadly ab...

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Cool fall days and warm, cozy friendships bring Josette and her friends together to cook a delicious gumbo bursting with flavor. As the children add their favorite ingredients to the pot, they stir up some fascinating stories about Louisiana's people--including Cajuns, Creoles, American Indians, French, Africans, Germans, and Spanish Isleños. While spicing up their friendship in Mama's kitchen, what will Josette and her friends discover about ...

Settling St. Malo brings readers back to a time when Louisiana had the largest Filipino population in the United States--when Filipinos fished out of St. Malo, dried shrimp on Barataria Bay, and designed Mardi Gras floats in New Orleans. Poet Randy Gonzales explores the history of Louisiana's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Filipino communities and his family's story of migration and assimilation through a blend of documentary and lyri...

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This collection of essays is devoted to the study of intermediality in French-language comics and graphic novels. It explores the relations or interconnections between the modalities of expression and representation used in bande dessinâee and that of other media. This book provides a theoretical reflection on the notion of intermediality in comics, as well as thirteen chapters studying comics that transgress established boundaries between med...

The fifteen stories in Make Some Wretched Fool to Pay focus on the fraught relationship between parents and their children in the contemporary deep south. In stories set largely in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, power imbalances take center stage, whether that's within the family unit or in the complex world of high school and college football. Coaches and players, recruits and boosters square off to gain the upper hand in search of fame, ...

Set in the turbulent times of the American twentieth century, Dubus describes the years of 1933-1945 from the viewpoint of a girl growing up in southwest Louisiana, a unique region of manners, mores, daily lives, frequent celebrations, and diverse food of both the French and Cajun settlers. The recipes from the author's family and friends are lagniappe to be enjoyed again and again. Dubus describes a childhood filled with relatives ranging fro...

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A group of alt-right terrorists decides that now is the time--and New Orleans is the place--to make an explosive statement that will force the world to acknowledge the superiority of the white supremacist movement. Disgraced former New Orleans homicide detective Starner Gautreaux is now a poorly paid sheriff's deputy relegated to writing his weekly quota of speeding tickets in a sleepy south Louisiana parish. His mundane life is all-too-predic...

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