...Graham Owen Though the flooding of New Orleans was the result of shoddy construction of the city’s levees, the city’s recovery was to be not through enlightened government initiative but by frontier self-reliance, “personal responsibility.” Returning inhabitants, like pioneers, were to homestead...

...Jennie Lightweis-Goff Within days of the breach of the levees in New Orleans, a second man-made disaster—the “recovery” efforts—began to transform the city’s institutions, leaving many urban partisans afraid that New Orleans would be rebuilt along the model of other, more expensive, less habitable...

...Marguerite Nguyen This article weaves together interviews, cultural studies scholarship, and a personal experience of New Orleans to interpret narratives of Vietnamese Americans in the city pre- and post-Katrina. New Orleans is home to one of the densest concentrations of Vietnamese Americans...

...Bernardo Wade [email protected] © 2022 Bernardo Wade 2022 Bernardo Wade Carver Park, New Orleans I don t know a country in the world that has any rights for angels Sun Ra This court is a cacophony of sneakers losing life to cement. Boys bear their tattooed bodies under a sun...

..., that the “corrupt” Orleans Levee Board was responsible for the failed levees, that Katrina was such a large storm that it overwhelmed New Orleans, and that New Orleans is a city below sea level. These myths are thought to persist for reasons that include incomplete information, lack of knowledge, and political...

...T. R. Johnson This essay narrates an experience of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans to reflect on jazz, blues, slavery, race, community, diaspora, memory, and gentrification. It contextualizes itself through details of a particular neighborhood in New Orleans...

... lyric and the prospect poem, Prynne, Awoonor, and Trethewey use the hill as a location for staging the ethical dilemmas of the putative “global citizen.” From poetic hills in England, Ghana, and New Orleans, the view stretches to accommodate global suffering, inequality, and the lives of others, who...

... . Alponte Juan María . 2005 . “¿Es EU el primer país del Tercer Mundo?” (“Is the US the First Country of the Third World?”) . El Universal, September 28 . Arena John . 2012 . Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization. Minneapolis...

... and emergency rescues from rooftops were not the only impact Katrina had —it​ altered fundamen- tal social contracts in cities such as New Orleans, from public educa- tion to public housing. It also awakened a new activism focused on issues ranging from calls for better levee protection to addressing...

... and is a reader for Flaw and Masters Review. He currently teaches toddlers about literacy, cartooning, and the Falstaffiad. He can be found on Twitter @mikexgiddings. Henry Goldkamp performs his life in New Orleans, Louisiana. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Yemassee, DIAGRAM, Seneca Review, Denver...

... Orchard Review, and The Boiler. Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans. His poems have appeared in the New Orleans Review (web features), Bayou Magazine, B O D Y, and other journals. Heta Patel is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsyl- vania, studying global health and Hispanic studies. Her...

...Josh Lukin © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Works Cited and Consulted Banerjee Bidisha . “ Dhalgren in New Orleans: What an old science-fiction novel can tell us about the Big Easy .” Reason online . 13 Sept. 2005 . http://www.reason.com/hod/bb091305.shtml . Biondi...

..., and Stone Highway Review. Bradley Harrison is a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin. His work can be found in Gulf Coast, CutBank, the Los Ange- les Review, Hunger Mountain, New Orleans Review, Best New Poets 2012, and elsewhere. His chapbook Diorama of a People, Burning...

.... Translated by Joshua David Jordan. Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e). Nguyen, Tan Hoang. 2014. A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Orléan, André. 2014. The Empire of Value: A New Foundation for Economics. Trans- lated...

... it in order to maintain the belief that it is possible. However, the patterns of class inequality persist over time. Furthermore, class status is correlated with educational success, occupational status, home ownership, and, as we have seen in New Orleans, the chances of surviving a natural disaster...

... the mighty Mississippi River to float our logs through New Orleans and out to sea. minnesota review 98 (2022) DOI 10.1215/00265667-9563625 © 2022 Dustin M. Hoffman 13 14 the minnesota review Animal training. Being born in Maine, I thought I d seen the coldest worlds. But one winter in Minnesota I watched...

... in Southern Review, Artful Dodge, and Courtgreen. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and son and is pursuing a PhD in English literature at Stanford. Kaethe Schwehn’s poems have been published in journals such as jubilat, New Orleans Review, Crazyhorse, Forklift Ohio, Quarterly...

... of architecture at Tulane Uni- versity. His edited volume Architecture, Ethics, and Globalization (2009) represents an ongoing area of his research. A licensed architect in Canada and the United States, he has also published on the ethics of reconstruction in New Orleans in the Journal of Architectural...

... as Still Life with Skull” features a line borrowed from Erin Belieu. Rob Stephens is originally from New Orleans. His work is pub- lished or forthcoming in New Delta Review, Shimmy Hoots Review, Crescent City Review, and Wingbeats. He can be reached at rob.ste- [email protected]. Marcela...

... on September 20, 2006. She was born April 18, 1941 in New York City. Her father Irving (né Isak) Robinson, a Jewish immigrant from Czernowitz, Bukovina, was a foreman in his uncles’ picture frame factory. Her mother, Fannie Robinson, born in New Orleans of a Russian Jewish immigrant family...