The Big Easy: Literary New Orleans and Intangible Heritage

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.04.11

  1. Unit Guide
  1. The Introduction – Little Boxes on the Hillside
  2. And Context – Little Boxes All the Same
  3. The Heart of the (Subject) Matter – And They're All Made Out of Ticky Tacky
  4. Appendix
  5. Works Cited
  6. Endnotes

'Imaginal' Performances in Memory

Jeffry K. Weathers

Published September 2011

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Works Cited

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Bechdel, Alison. Fun home: A Family Tragicomic. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Christakis, Nicholas A., and James H. Fowler. Connected the Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2009.

Codrescu, Andrei. New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings From The City. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.

Cook, Roger. The Tree of Life: Image for the Cosmos. New York: Avon, 1974.

Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun . San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2009.

Everything Is Illuminated. DVD. Directed by Liev Schreiber. Burbank: Warner Home Video, 2005.

Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. DVD. Directed by Dawn Logsdon. London, UK: Createspace, 2010.

Harold and Maude. DVD. Directed by Hal Ashby. Chicago: Paramount Home Video, 1971.

Harvey, Robert. Joyous Wakes, Dignified Deaths: Issues In Death and Dignity. Stony Brook, NY: Humanities Institute, 2001.

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise. DVD. Directed by Spike Lee. null: Hbo Home Video, 2006.

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"Mardi Gras Indians of Mardi Gras, New Orleans — their parade, history, posters." Mardi Gras Indians of Mardi Gras, New Orleans — their parade, history, posters. http://www.mardigrasindians.com/ (accessed August 5, 2011).

Neufeld, Josh. A.D.: New Orleans After The Deluge. New York: Pantheon Books, 2009.

Ondaatje, Michael. Coming Through Slaughter . New York: Norton, 1976.

Osbey, Brenda Marie. All Saints: New and Selected Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

"Paul Klee - Standing at his appointed place, at the trunk of the tree... | Famous Quotes." Famous Quotes | Famous Quthor Quotations - Top 10 Famous Quotes - Bob Marley, Marilyn Monroe. http://www.1-famous-quotes.com/quote/923179 (accessed July 17, 2011). Reference site for famous quotations.

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Postel, Mitchell. Peninsula Portrait: An Illustrated History of San Mateo County. Northridge, Calif.: Windsor Publications, 1988.

Racing With the Moon. DVD. Directed by Richard Benjamin. Hollywood: Paramount, 1984.

Reizenstein, Ludwig von, and Steven W. Rowan. The Mysteries of New Orleans . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Roach, Joseph R.. Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Satinsky, Howard. Untangling and Derailing the Rhetoric of Marginalization in American Historical Fiction: Faulkner's Absolom, Absolom!, Reed's Mumbo Jumbo and Morrison's Beloved. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Shapard, Robert, and James Thomas. New Sudden Fiction: short-short stories from America and beyond. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.

Silverstein, Shel. The giving tree . New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

Suzuki Speaks. DVD. Directed by David Suzuki. Vancouver: CineClix Distribution Inc, 2004.

The Tree of Life. Theater viewing. Directed by Terrence Malick. Franklin, Idaho: Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2011.

Toole, John K.. A Confederacy of Dunces . [Repr.] ed. New York, NY: Grove Press, 2006.

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts (Documentary). DVD. Directed by Spike Lee. null: Hbo Home Video, 2006.

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