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Argues that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America. Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous. James Nagel argues that the conflicts and themes in these stories cannot be understood without a knowledge of the unique historical context of the founding of Louisiana.

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Argues that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America. Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous. James Nagel argues that the conflicts and themes in these stories cannot be understood without a knowledge of the unique historical context of the founding of Louisiana.
Autorenporträt
James Nagel is the J. O. Eidson Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia and a Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College. He is the president of the Society for the Study of the American Short Story and a former president of the international Ernest Hemingway Society. Among his twenty-three books are Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism, Hemingway in Love and War (which was made into a Hollywood film starring Sandra Bullock), The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle, and Blackwell's A Companion to the American Short Story, edited with Alfred Bendixen.