Teresa A. Toulouse, Boulder, Colorado, is
professor of English at University of Colorado, Boulder, previously
serving as long-time professor of English and director of the
American Studies Department at Tulane University in New
Orleans.
Barbara C. Ewell, New Orleans, Louisiana, is
former Dorothy Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola
University, New Orleans, where she taught for three decades.
As a whole, the collection succeeds in its insistence on a creative
analytical approach that, rather than simply reproducing romantic
tropes often associated with New Orleans, contributes to our
understanding of how such tropes are produced. Despite the
distinctive abundance of in-between spaces in New Orleans, these
spaces are less a proprietary signature of the city than they are
an invitation to consider the quirkiness and symbolic potential of
urban interstitiality. For decades, postcolonial scholars have
argued that the in-between is a deeply generative and powerful
space, and Sweet Spots is a pragmatic multidisciplinary project
that continues to plead their case.--Christopher M. Grant,
University of Chicago "Winterthur Portfolio"
In the contemporary post-urban landscape, neglected, disused, or
leftover spaces often exist somewhere between dereliction and a
state of nature. For the editors of Sweet Spots, these 'inbetween'
spaces are a defining and active element of nineteenth-century
urban form, particularly of New Orleans's Vieux Carr�. . . .
Fascinating and illuminating--like the city itself.--Gary Van
Zante, curator of architecture and design, MIT Museum
The authors of each essay beautifully capture the uniqueness of New
Orleans in a compelling and engaging way. As a result, the reader
is left with an overwhelming appreciation of the city's Sweet
Spots, gaining a new understanding of why New Orleans maintains
popularity and appeal for locals and visitors alike, and the wide
variety of experts, from historians, to sociologists, to
geographers, and beyond, bring a diversity of approaches to the
study of this great city.--Lacy Molina, University of North Texas
"Louisiana History"
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