After Katrina: Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century

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Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key web site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the start of the twenty-first century.

Through the lens provided by the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, After Katrina argues that the city of New Orleans emerges as a key web site for exploring competing narratives of US decline and renewal at the start of the twenty-first century. Deploying an interdisciplinary approach to explore cultural representations of the post-storm city, Anna Hartnell suggests that New Orleans has been reimagined as a laboratory for a racialized neoliberalism, and as such could be seen as a terminus of the American dream. This US disaster zone has unveiled a network of social and environmental crises that demonstrate that prospects of social mobility have dwindled as environmental degradation and coastal erosion emerge as major threats not just to the quality of life but to the potential of life in coastal communities across The united states and the world. And yet After Katrina also suggests that New Orleans culture offers a mind-set about america in terms that transcend the binary of national renewal or declension. The post-Hurricane city thus emerges as a flashpoint for reflecting on the latest United States.

“As informed and informative as it is thoughtful and thought-provoking … atypical and highly advisable.” — Midwest Book Review

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