Voices Rising II: More Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project - Softcover

Antoine, Rebeca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970619081 ISBN 13: 9780970619082

Publisher: University of New Orleans Press, 2010

Synopsis

Voices Rising II is the second book created from the archives of The Katrina Narrative Project, a sweeping enterprise by the University of New Orleans to collect diverse accounts and histories from Louisiana citizens who endured Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Culled from hundreds of manuscripts, audio recordings and interviews housed at the University of New Orleans Library, the stories provide an exceptional record for the understanding and study of collapse and reorganization, disaster and recovery.

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During the rebuilding of the gulf coast after Hurricane Katrina, University of New Orleans students began collecting personal stories and the "Katrina Narrative Project" was born. The second compilation of interviews focuses both on the people who stayed behind to face the storm, and those who fled, sometimes only to return to a city they no longer knew. Occasionally funny, often inspiring, and always heartbreaking, these stories reveal the indomitable character of the Big Easy. Whether it's the story told by the chef who returned after spending three years in Des Moines, but says, "coming home was the worst mistake of my life," or the Nigerian professor who spent several days trapped in an attic during the storm, readers will be moved by the suffering of the citizenry and overwhelmed by the smallest gestures of aid. Antoine has done a superb job of selecting stories that allow these people to speak for themselves while also conveying a universal message. With the gulf oil disaster bringing new pain upon a city still in recovery, readers may find the addition of these voices to the narrative overwhelmingly heartrending.
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Edition details

• Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970619081
• ISBN 13: 9780970619082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 475