Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory
Desire and Disaster in New Orleans explores the connections among tourism, race, and historical memory. Centered on the representation of New Orleans, Lynnell L. Thomas’s study considers how ideas about the past, place, and racial experience influence the ways the city is understood and presented.
About This Book
Desire and Disaster in New Orleans examines the relationship between tourism, race, and historical memory.
Focusing on New Orleans, the book considers how the city’s history is represented through tourism.
Its subject brings together questions of racial experience, cultural memory, and the interpretation of place.
The book offers a scholarly perspective on the ways historical narratives shape understandings of New Orleans.
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