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Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans
Exiles at Home The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans
Author: Shirley Elizabeth Thompson
New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city in its racial ambiguity and pursuit of les bons temps. Despite its image as a place apart, the city played a key role in nineteenth-century America as a site for immigration and pluralism, the quest for equality, and the centrality of self-making. In both the literary im...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674023512
ISBN-10: 067402351X
Publication Date: 2/15/2009
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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