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Category Archives: Literary Analysis
Interview with the Vampire and New Orleans in the Context of LIterary Vampires
by Nathan Snaza Interview with the Vampire (1976) is not the first major American vampire novel, but the two previous novels about vampires are steadfastly within a literary tradition from which Interview breaks in some important ways that forever change … Continue reading
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How Hurricane Katrina Changed a Village Called Versailles
By Megan Kroger After being refugees of the Vietnam War, many Vietnamese residents of Versailles, in New Orleans East, already knew a thing or two about government discrimination and the need to endure. By the time Hurricane Katrina hit, those … Continue reading
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Giving Voice to the Voiceless in When the Levees Broke
By Gino Grieco Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke is, at first glance, a bleak look at one of the darkest periods of US politics and governmental ambivalence. When asked by NPR how Katrina affected him Lee answered, “I was … Continue reading
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“Us and Them”: Racial Boundaries in Glass House
By Maddy Boylan George The disparity in wealth, class, and race is shown through Christine Wiltz’s novel Glass House. Set in the late 1980s, the novel reflects the racial tensions present in New Orleans at a time when a weakened … Continue reading
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Mardi Gras and Masks: How Relationships Begin and End in Robert Olen Butler’s A Small Hotel
By Jack Lawler Set against the backdrop of New Orleans, Robert Olen Butler’s A Small Hotel deals with the relationship between the two protagonists, Michael and Kelly, and explores how issues such as emotional withholding and miscommunication lead to the … Continue reading
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Brenda Marie Osbey and the Blending of Christianity and Hoodoo in New Orleans
By Allison Siegel Brenda Marie Osbey writes poetry based on her life spent in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans that reflects the unique Creole culture in which we was raised. Born on December 12, 1957, to Lawrence C. Osbey … Continue reading
Binx Bolling’s Evasion of New Orleans in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
by Martha Ashe In his widely celebrated novel, The Moviegoer (1961), Walker Percy presents the intriguingly complex protagonist Binx Bolling in the week leading up to his thirtieth birthday on Ash Wednesday in New Orleans. Throughout this week of Mardi … Continue reading
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Racial Identity and Social Stigma in Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
By Weston Harty The conflicts in John Gregory Brown’s Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery arise from generations of racial misunderstanding resulting from the marriage of a white man, Lowell Eagen, to a woman of mixed racial ancestry, Mollie. Compounding this … Continue reading
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“Interview with the Vampire”: New Orleans as the Ideal Location for Vampires
By Megan Kroger Vibrant, awake, alive even, are all terms frequently associated with the stereotypical visit to New Orleans. From everyday life to its festivals, it is a city deeply rooted in tradition and remembrance. It has to been seen … Continue reading
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Welty’s Strangers Journey Out, and South, of Conventional New Orleans
by Bridget Maguire Eudora Welty takes readers on a journey to a place unbound by social convention in her short story, “No Place for You, My Love.” This story’s inspiration stems from a trip Welty, accompanied by young Harvard professor … Continue reading
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