USA: Louisiana
James Lee Burke Black Cherry Blues . Cajun cop Dave Robicheaux sets out to expose alliances between government and organized crime in the beautiful environs of Louisiana and Montana. A detective book that has it all.George Washington Cable The Grandissimes . Romantic saga of Creole family feuds, written c.1900 but set during the Louisiana Purchase. Superb evocation of steamy Louisiana elite, the Creole lifestyle and the resistance of New Orleans to its Americanization. Apparently shocking at the time for its sympathetic portrayal of blacks.
*Kate Chopin The Awakening . Subversive story of a bourgeois married woman whose fight for independence ends in tragedy. Swampy c.1900 Louisiana is portrayed as both a sensual hotbed for her sexual awakening and as her eventual nemesis.
*John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces . Anarchic black tragicomedy in which the pompous and repulsive anti-hero Ignatius J. Reilly wreaks havoc through an insalubrious and surreal New Orleans.
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