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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Huey, Caroline |
| Title, Analytic | Contextualizing The Mysteries of New Orleans |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of the Society for German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 2020 |
| Volume ID | 55 |
| Location in Work | 21-32 |
| View Online | View Online |
| Abstract | The serial novel Die Geheimnisse von New Orleans, is “the only German mystery novel set in the antebellum South”; it “addressed a very specific audience: the German-speaking population of New Orleans during the period shortly before the Civil War.” The author discusses unique aspects of life in antebellum New Orleans and the German immigrants’ point of view in that society. The story “reveals a pervasive preoccupation with race and enslavement, concepts that German immigrants had not encountered before emigrating. What I hope to show here are the many layers of this preoccupation that The Mysteries represented and addressed for its readers.” |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Call Number | Digital file |
| MKI Terms | German Americans -- Louisiana/ New Orleans (La.)/ Slavery/ Fiction, German-American/ Reizenstein, Ludwig von, 1826-1885 |