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Reader Response And The Interpretation Of "Hop-Frog," "How To Write A Blackwood Article," And "The Tell-Tale Heart", Brian Yothers
Reader Response And The Interpretation Of "Hop-Frog," "How To Write A Blackwood Article," And "The Tell-Tale Heart", Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
This essay discusses ways in which reader response can enrich the teaching of Poe's short fiction.
“‘The City I Used To...Visit’: Tourist New Orleans And The Racialized Response To Hurricane Katrina”, Lynnell Thomas
“‘The City I Used To...Visit’: Tourist New Orleans And The Racialized Response To Hurricane Katrina”, Lynnell Thomas
Lynnell Thomas
This article explores the connections between New Orleans’s late 20th-century tourism representations and the mainstream media coverage and national images of the city immediately following Hurricane Katrina. It pays particular attention to the ways that race and class are employed in both instances to create and perpetuate a distorted sense of place that ignore the historical and contemporary realities of the city’s African American population.