...Richard Rambuss Duke University Press 2000 6084 boundary 2 27:2 / sheet 53 of 227 Spenser and Milton at Mardi Gras: English Literature, American Cultural Capital, and the Reformation of New Orleans Carnival...

..., particularly in the New Orleans African Ameri- can community, was met by the administration with a listless response that matched the country’s enduring malaise about race relations. Both states of being are symptomatic of an emerging epoch in which the distances and distinctions—cultural, economic...

... of New Orleans. Tony Tanner was professor of English and American literature, University of Cam- bridge, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. A distinguished critic of British and American literature, Tanner was the author of The Reign of Wonder (1965), City of Words (1971), Adultery...

... and humanitarian journey, constantly visible and negotiated with- out retreat or disguise in the public world of New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and virtually everywhere music was valued. That biocritical lineage ken inside this unequalled trio’s interactive subordination to that added thing, its magical...

.... Add to this list the loyal servants of the federal relief agencies and the Louisiana and New Orleans disaster response teams after Hurricane Katrina, and you begin to see the connections between latent or passive acts of terror and natural disasters. Nor is it just a matter of failures...

... neighborhood in New Orleans. He did not know his father and was raised by his mother, who worked in a bar and occasionally had to prostitute herself to feed her five children. Woodfox had to learn quickly to survive and turned to crime when young. At first, he committed small crimes with his friends: he stole...

.... Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Books Received 211 Johnson, Cedric, ed. The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011...

... Orleans. Interestingly, much of what I had written above seemed to be applicable equally to New Orleans. Of course, no one would suggest that New Orleans is not on the networks of the new global economy; it is, after all, a major tourist attraction. Given that, it was all the more appalling that large...

... located the origins of his movement at a memorial ser- vice President George Herbert Walker Bush led to commemorate Rosa Parks. While listening to President Bush’s father celebrate her memory, Obama recalled images of the abandoned and homeless people of New Orleans after...

... at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on alternative epistemologies in Latin American poetry and narrative. Tonya M. Foster, a New Orleans native in Harlem, is assistant professor of writing and literature at California College of the Arts. Her first poetry collection, A Swarm of Bees in High Court...

... a significant moment. But, along with this shortened distance, we also need to think in terms of longer spans of time than we’re used to. I have an essay on Hurricane Katrina and the difference between New Orleans city planners and those in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, they planned...

..., and on to the avant-garde currents in which Cage positioned his work. Outside of intellectual provocation, one could even on occasion encounter the thing itself, as in New Orleans during Mardi Gras: “the one American art,” as Ishmael Reed ( 1989 : 26) once observed, which has always seen the audience “participate...

... integrated, schools all over the South and just a decade later made George Wallace a terrifying candidate for the presidency of the United States. The family intimacy of brotherhood, the social ideal of fraternity, Bon who has lived as a commanding figure in New Orleans society, all that was solid melts...

..., the police power in all its manifestations, then you have the framework for the continued labeling of the expendable. In Sentell v. New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Company (1896), the precedent- setting case still used today to dispose of allegedly danger- ous and vicious dogs, Justice Henry Billings...

... powers as a singer in 1947—it is Armstrong who steals the show. (New Orleans, Majestic Productions, Inc., 1947) Through most of his childhood, Ellison (b. 1914) lived on or near Okla- homa City’s Second Street, nicknamed Deep Second or Deep Deuce, which was a smaller version of Kansas City’s...

... inter- action with the congregation revealing the same structures that in- form the early ‘‘collective improvisation’’ of New Orleans jazz, bebop, and the avant-garde jazz of the 1960s. (203) There, time and a history of political sectarianism vanish as Thomas per- forms—more...

... boarded—which event marks my first trauma—the ‘‘City of New Orleans’’ out of Memphis’s Union Station, had, among its stops, Chehaw, from which terminus she would travel by car to the campus. If the loss of my sister to adulthood registers as a first memory, as the dawning consciousness of apartness...

... their parents taught them to prepare. The fifth snapshot takes place in New Orleans, in a tiny movie the- ater where the film Bitter Sugar, by the Cuban émigré director Leon Ichaso, is being shown. There are no more than...

... of a Negro’s (un)timeliness even if, for Miles, About func- tioned as a musical cue for a solo? Does—should—this aesthetic code trump the cultural one? The point is that “blackness” is not a fixed standard 14. Hank Lazer, Days (New Orleans: Lavender Ink, 2002), 56. On Race...

... Learning to be a good artist appears to be a lot like learning how to live well and democratically. Yet, as much as 26. Louis Armstrong, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (London: Peter Davies, 1958), 25. 27. Ellison, ‘‘Living with Music in Collected Essays, 229. 172 boundary 2 / Summer 2003 one...