The Louisiana Field Guide by Ryan Orgera & Wayne Parent

Author:Ryan Orgera & Wayne Parent
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2014-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

WRAPPED IN CARNIVAL

Over and over in Louisiana literature, conflicting classes, contrasting ideologies, eccentric characters, a landscape of promise and heartache, and an overarching sense of failure and success being forever twinned whirl together. Novelists Gaines and Gautreaux, poets Bourque and Osbey, the chiefs of the Mardi Gras Indians, dramatic works such as A Streetcar Named Desire and Steel Magnolias, and new films and television series set in Louisiana, such as True Blood and Treme, continue to explore the true nature of carnival, that view of the world that acknowledges and celebrates the shift, that endures impermanence, and that strives to overreach or erase boundaries and divisions while at the same time letting them proliferate. Louisiana literature remains the keenest interpreter of a state perpetually flawed and bursting with promise; incomprehensible yet familiar: a paradigm both for living and for overcoming the American dream.

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