Inventing New Orleans [[electronic resource] ] : writings of Lafcadio Hearn / / edited, with an intoduction by S. Frederick Starr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820169903321
• Autore: Hearn Lafcadio <1850-1904.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2001
• ISBN: 1-283-38199-0; 9786613381996; 1-60473-632-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): StarrS. Frederick
• Disciplina: 813/.4
• Soggetti: New Orleans (La.) Literary collections; New Orleans (La.) Description and travel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowlegments; Introduction: The Man Who Invented New Orleans; I. 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 Maló: A Lacustrine Village in LouisianaRod and Gun; II. 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 AliveCreole 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!; That Piano Organ; A Creole Courtyard; The Accursed Fig Tree; Home; A Visitor; Opening Oysters; By the Murmuring Waves; Spanish Moss; The Lord Sends Trials and Tribulations to Strengthen and Pacify Our Hearts; Ye Pilot; III. Of Vices and Virtues: Editorials; Latin and Anglo-Saxon; French in Louisiana; Jewish Emigrants for LouisianaQuack! Quack!; The Opium Dens; Scénes de la Vie des Hoodlums; Blackmailing; The Indignant Dead; Improved Police Ideas; Coming Events Cast Their Shadow Before; A Visit to New Orleans; Whited Sepulchres; Old-Fashioned Houses; La Douane; The Haunted and the Haunters; The Unspeakable Velocipede; The Organ Grinder; The Puller of Noses; The Glamour of New Orleans; The Dawn of the Carnival; The Pelican's Ghost; IV. Reports from the Field: Longer Studies; La Cuisine Créole; Gombo Zhèbes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects; Notes on Sources
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 selling his writing in such periodicals as the New Orleans Daily Item, Times-Democrat, Harper's Weekly, and Scribner's Magazine he crystallized the way Americans view New Orleans and its south Louisiana environs. Hearn was prolific, producing colorful and vivid sketches, vignettes, news articles, essays, t