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Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s (Paperback or Softback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- EAN
- 9780807156100
- ISBN
- 0807156108
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- Dixie Bohemia : a French Quarter Circle in the 1920s
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- LSU Press
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
- Topic
- General, American / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Customs & Traditions
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the center of a vibrant if short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William Spratling, an artist who taught at Tulane University, resided among the "artful and crafty ones of the French Quarter." In Dixie Bohemia John Shelton Reed introduces Faulkner's circle of friends -- ranging from the distinguished Sherwood Anderson to a gender-bending Mardi Gras costume designer -- and brings to life the people and places of New Orleans in the Jazz Age. Reed begins with Faulkner and Spratling's self-published homage to their fellow bohemians, "Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles." The book contained 43 sketches of New Orleans artists, by Spratling, with captions and a short introduction by Faulkner. The title served as a rather obscure joke: Sherwood was not a Creole and neither were most of the people featured. But with Reed's commentary, these profiles serve as an entry into the world of artists and writers that dined on Decatur Street, attended masked balls, and blatantly ignored the Prohibition Act. These men and women also helped to establish New Orleans institutions such as the Double Dealer literary magazine, the Arts and Crafts Club, and Le Petit Theatre. But unlike most bohemias, the one in New Orleans existed as a whites-only affair. Though some of the bohemians were relatively progressive, and many employed African American material in their own work, few of them knew or cared about what was going on across town among the city's black intellectuals and artists. The positive developments from this French Quarter renaissance, however, attracted attention and visitors, inspiring the historic preservation and commercial revitalization that turned the area into a tourist destination. Predictably, this gentrification drove out many of the working artists and writers who had helped revive the area. As Reed points out, one resident who identified herself as an "artist" on the 1920 federal census gave her occupation in 1930 as "saleslady, real estate," reflecting the decline of an active artistic class. A charming and insightful glimpse into an era, Dixie Bohemia describes the writers, artists, poseurs, and hangers-on in the New Orleans art scene of the 1920s and illuminates how this dazzling world faded as quickly as it began.
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Publisher
LSU Press
ISBN-10
0807156108
ISBN-13
9780807156100
eBay Product ID (ePID)
203385461
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dixie Bohemia : a French Quarter Circle in the 1920s
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Copyright Date
2012
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History Ser.
Illustrated
Yes
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