Consuming Katrina : public disaster and personal narrative / Kate Parker Horigan.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horigan, Kate Parker (Author)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Series:Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
Subjects:
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Personal narratives.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Disaster victims > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Disaster relief > Social aspects > United States.
Disasters > Mississippi > Gulf Coast.
Refugees > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Disaster relief > Social aspects.
Disaster victims.
Disasters.
Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
Mississippi > Gulf Coast.
United States.
2000-2099
Personal narratives.
Genre:
Personal narratives.
Physical Description:x, 145 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Establish some kind of control: survivor interviews
  • From angel of mercy to fallen folk hero: Zeitoun's story travels
  • Katrina stories get graphic in A.D. : New Orleans after the deluge
  • They probably got us all on the news: unsettled filming in trouble the water
  • Not written in stone: tenth-anniversary commemorations of Katrina
  • Conclusion.