作者: Anna Hartnell
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摘要: This essay explores new forms of tourism that have emerged in post-Katrina New Orleans. It begins by looking at the ways which city's long history commodifying black culture for predominantly white tourists has enabled existence two parallel worlds. Though distinct, these worlds are defined a necessarily precarious boundary allows Orleans's to experience African American “up close.” The voyeurism post-hurricane disaster works rather differently. Katrina bus tours, transport storm-devastated neighbourhoods, focus eyes on landscape peculiarly devoid human inhabitants; likewise, IMAX feature Hurricane Bayou is driven de-politicized environmentalism elides cost storm. Both offer sense closure rendering ongoing racial fallout all but invisible. argues this possibly indicates and deeper kind disconnect between cities reside