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Informationen zum Autor Katheryn Krotzer Laborde is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. Klappentext When the floodwaters that swamped New Orleans finally receded in September 2005, the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery began. One of the most common sights was the discarded home refrigerator, perched on the curb and ready for disposal. For months, thousands upon thousands of ruined refrigerators still awaited pick-up. Many had messages scribbled with markers or blurted with spray paint, rendered by owners and passersby alike, ranging from practical to sentimental, the angry to the darkly humorous. This book, featuring hundreds of black-and-white photographs, presents the communiques that transformed appliances into message boards, and explores the post-disaster environment that inspired their creation. Zusammenfassung Presents the communiques on discarded home refrigerators post-Hurricane Katrina that transformed appliances into message boards! and explores the post-disaster environment that inspired their creation. It features hundreds of black-and-white photographs of the marked refrigerators! along with additional photographs of post-Katrina New Orleans. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Foreword viiiIntroduction: Coming Home ONE ¿ Refrigerators I: Empty, Full TWO ¿ The People Who Grieved, the City They Mourned For THREE ¿ Voices of the Storm FOUR ¿ Refrigerators II: Getting the Word Out FIVE ¿ Signs of the Times SIX ¿ Refrigerators III: Anarchy and Anger SEVEN ¿ Grief and Frigidaires EIGHT ¿ Talkin' Trash NINE ¿ Refrigerators IV: Hope, Faith, and Love Epilogue: Gustav Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
