Book contents
- New Orleans
- New Orleans
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Swamp City
- Chapter 2 Mixed Motives
- Chapter 3 “As I Have Seen and Known It”
- Chapter 4 What New Orleans Meant to Walt Whitman
- Chapter 5 Coloring Sex, Love, and Desire in Creole New Orleans’s Long Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 6 The White Creole Tradition
- Chapter 7 The Civil War’s Literary Aftershocks
- Chapter 8 Illusion and Disillusion
- Chapter 9 Local Color, Social Problems, and the Living Dead in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Chapter 10 Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier, and the Predicament of the Intellectual Woman in New Orleans
- Chapter 11 Converging Americas
- Chapter 12 A Jazz Origin Myth
- Chapter 13 “Stepping Out” of the Storyville Frame
- Chapter 14 Louis Armstrong’s Autobiographical Art
- Chapter 15 New Orleans, Modernism, and The Double Dealer, 1921–1926
- Chapter 16 “Because What Else Could He Have Hoped to Find in New Orleans, If Not the Truth”
- Chapter 17 “The Place I Was Made For”
- Chapter 18 A Civil Rights–Era Novel of the American Civil War
- Chapter 19 How to Survive the Best Environments
- Chapter 20 Tom Dent and the Development of Black Literature in New Orleans
- Chapter 21 The Gothic Tradition in New Orleans
- Chapter 22 A Flaneur in the French Quarter and Beyond
- Chapter 23 Literary Fiction by New Orleans Women, 1961–2003
- Chapter 24 Asian American New Orleans
- Chapter 25 New Orleans Rap and Bounce
- Chapter 26 The Literature of Hurricane Katrina
- Chapter 27 Swan Song?
- Index
Chapter 24 - Asian American New Orleans
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2019
- New Orleans
- New Orleans
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Swamp City
- Chapter 2 Mixed Motives
- Chapter 3 “As I Have Seen and Known It”
- Chapter 4 What New Orleans Meant to Walt Whitman
- Chapter 5 Coloring Sex, Love, and Desire in Creole New Orleans’s Long Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 6 The White Creole Tradition
- Chapter 7 The Civil War’s Literary Aftershocks
- Chapter 8 Illusion and Disillusion
- Chapter 9 Local Color, Social Problems, and the Living Dead in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Chapter 10 Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier, and the Predicament of the Intellectual Woman in New Orleans
- Chapter 11 Converging Americas
- Chapter 12 A Jazz Origin Myth
- Chapter 13 “Stepping Out” of the Storyville Frame
- Chapter 14 Louis Armstrong’s Autobiographical Art
- Chapter 15 New Orleans, Modernism, and The Double Dealer, 1921–1926
- Chapter 16 “Because What Else Could He Have Hoped to Find in New Orleans, If Not the Truth”
- Chapter 17 “The Place I Was Made For”
- Chapter 18 A Civil Rights–Era Novel of the American Civil War
- Chapter 19 How to Survive the Best Environments
- Chapter 20 Tom Dent and the Development of Black Literature in New Orleans
- Chapter 21 The Gothic Tradition in New Orleans
- Chapter 22 A Flaneur in the French Quarter and Beyond
- Chapter 23 Literary Fiction by New Orleans Women, 1961–2003
- Chapter 24 Asian American New Orleans
- Chapter 25 New Orleans Rap and Bounce
- Chapter 26 The Literature of Hurricane Katrina
- Chapter 27 Swan Song?
- Index
Summary
Among the most well-known contemporary portrayals of Asian American New Orleans are the writings of Robert Olen Butler and the depictions of Vietnamese Americans rebounding from Hurricane Katrina that, in the broader Louisianan imagination, attest to the city’s multicultural and resilient heritage. However, a longer, more complex history of race, labor, and culture can link the city to the Pacific Ocean and thereby reconfigure traditional transatlantic and Caribbean racial and cultural geometries. A radical – rather than simply multicultural – archive more effectively advances understandings of New Orleans that are attentive to both overlooked sources and the material contexts that shape how knowledge about the city is produced. A radical archive would go well beyond the short fiction of Robert Olen Butler and the depictions of Katrina-era Vietnamese Americans to afford an understanding of Asian New Orleans.
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- New OrleansA Literary History, pp. 314 - 329Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019