“Magic Portraits Drawn by the Sun”: New Orleans, Yellow Fever, and the sense(s) of death in Josh Russell’s Yellow Jack
In ways comparable to the horrors of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in 2005, the series of yellow fever epidemics that devastated New Orleans through the nineteenth century were also the result, in part, of the city’s geographical position, its unforgiving climate, and the policies of intereste...
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5393 |