LEADER 04764nam 2200661 450 001 9910810773603321 005 20230126212111.0 010 $a0-8173-8717-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000518926 035 $a(EBL)1620027 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001113035 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11732077 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001113035 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11165895 035 $a(PQKB)10827493 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1620027 035 $a(OCoLC)879306252 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28665 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1620027 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10835958 035 $a(OCoLC)870228713 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000518926 100 $a20130611h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRace and culture in New Orleans stories $eKate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable /$fJames Nagel 210 1$aTuscaloosa :$cUniversity Alabama Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (223 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1338-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: Preface -- Introduction: The Historical Context -- 1. George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days -- 2. Grace King and the Cultural Background of Balcony Stories -- 3. Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the New Orleans Story Cycle -- 4. Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk -- Conclusion : The Literary Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America. Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous: Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk; George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days; Grace King's Balcony Stories; and Alice Dunbar-Nelson's The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories. James Nagel argues that the conflicts and themes in these stories cannot be understood without a knowledge of the unique historical context of the founding of Louisiana, its four decades of rule by the Spanish, the Louisiana Purchase and the resulting cultural transformations across the region, Napoleonic law, the Code Noir, the plaçage tradition, the immigration of various ethnic and natural groups into the city, and the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction. All of these historical factors energize and enrich the fiction of this important region. The literary context of these volumes is also central to understanding their place in literary history. They are short-story cycles--collections of short fiction that contain unifying settings, recurring characters or character types, and central themes and motifs. They are also examples of the "local color" tradition in fiction, a movement that has been much misunderstood. Nagel maintains that "local color" literature was meant to be the highest form of American writing, not the lowest, and its objective was to capture the locations, folkways, values, dialects, conflicts, and ways of life in the various regions of the country in order to show that the lives of common citizens were sufficiently important to be the subject of serious literature. Finally, Nagel shows that New Orleans provided a profoundly rich and complex setting for the literary exploration of some of the most crucial social problems in America, including racial stratification, social caste, economic exploitation, and gender roles, all of which were undergoing rapid transformation at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican literature$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLocal color in literature 606 $aSocial structure in literature 606 $aSocial change in literature 606 $aSocial problems in literature 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLocal color in literature. 615 0$aSocial structure in literature. 615 0$aSocial change in literature. 615 0$aSocial problems in literature. 676 $a810.9/976335 686 $aLIT004020$2bisacsh 700 $aNagel$b James$01647739 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810773603321 996 $aRace and culture in New Orleans stories$93995499 997 $aUNINA