Lafcadio Hearn's America: ethnographic sketches and editorials
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Beteilige Person: Hearn, Lafcadio 1850-1904 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Bronner, Simon J. 1954- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Lexington, Ky. University Press of Kentucky c2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-233)
pt. 1. Communities and the "under side" of America. 1 - Levee life : haunts and pastimes of the roustabouts -- - 2 - Saint Malo : a lacrustine village in Louisiana -- - 3 - Sicilians in New Orleans -- - 4 - The last of the New Orleans fencing-masters -- - 5 - A gypsy camp -- - 6 - Some pictures of poverty : impressions of a round with an overseer of the poor -- - 7 - Pariah people : outcast life by night in the East End -- - 8. Les - chiffonniers : how they live, work and have their being -- - 9 - Within the bars : how prisoners look, live, and conduct themselves -- - 10 - Cincinnati salamanders : a confederation of twenty little communities -- - 11 - Steeple climbers -- - pt. 2. "Enormous and lurid facts" : language, folklife, and culture. 12 - Cheek -- - 13 - The Creole patois -- - 14 - The Creole doctor -- - 15 - The last of the voudoos -- - 16 - New Orleans superstitions -- - 17 - The music of the masses -- - 18 - Black varieties : the minstrels of the row -- - 19 - Among the spirits : an Enquirer reporter communicates with his father -- - 20 - Some strange experience : the reminiscences of a ghost-seer -- - 21 - Haceldama : Hebrew slaughterers, gentile butchers, and consumptive blood-drinkers -- - 22 - The manufacture of yellow and Rockingham ware in Cincinnati -- - pt. 3. Opinions of America. 23 - Growth of population in America -- - 24 - The Labour problem in America -- - 25 - The race-problem in America -- - 26 - Some Japanese ideas of American policy -- - 27 - Prevention of cruelty to women -- - 28 - Recent American novels -- - 29 - American magazines -- - 30 - American art tastes -- - 31 - The French in Louisiana -- - 32 - The roar of a great city
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ISBN:081317046X
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