Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context Literature, Film and Tele
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Arin Keeble
Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context
Arin Keeble
Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context Literature, Film and Television
Arin Keeble Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh, UK
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the Keebles and Kerns of the American Gulf Coast for their inspiration, input, support and love. Though I grew up in Washington State and lived there until I was twenty-one, and though I have lived in the UK since 1998, I have a lifelong affinity with the American Gulf Coast, where my mother’s family come from. They have weathered some storms over the years, and their values persist in the face of an increasingly imperiled American democracy. My mother and father remain a constant source of inspiration—despite the thousands of miles that separate us. I would like to thank my wife, son and stepson, for putting up with my time-consuming and distracting obsessions. It is no exaggeration to say that all my small professional achievements have been made possible, in some way, by my wife’s love and support. I’m blessed to have and to have had some wonderful colleagues, and it would be remiss not to mention them here. I’d like to thank each one of my much-loved colleagues in the English department at Edinburgh Napier University and my former colleagues in English at Nottingham Trent University—two truly wonderful, ha
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