The Revelation of Hurricanes in the Camouflaged Caribbean

Title
The Revelation of Hurricanes in the Camouflaged Caribbean
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
McDougall, Russell J
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of the West Indies, Departments of Literatures in English
Place of publication
Barbados
UNE publication id
une:21358
Abstract
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina started tracking out of the Caribbean, made first landfall in southern Florida, and of course devastated the city of New Orleans. Of all the Gulf States, Louisiana is the most connected by culture and history to the Caribbean, and New Orleans has often been regarded as a Caribbean city. But it took the costliest national disaster in the history of the United States to bring New Orleans into clear Caribbean focus. As Andrés Duany says, we see it now in retrospect, before its ruin, not as one of "the most haphazard, poorest, or misgoverned American cities, but rather [as] the most organized, wealthiest, cleanest, and competently governed of the Caribbean cities."
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Citation
Journal of West Indian Literature, 25(1), p. 10-22
ISSN
2414-3030
Start page
10
End page
22

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