Travels with Mae
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Travels with Mae

Scenes from a New Orleans Girlhood

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Jan |Learn more

Travels with Mae

Scenes from a New Orleans Girlhood

About this book

With a series of lyrical vignettes Eileen M. Julien traces her life as an African American woman growing up in middle-class New Orleans in the 1950s and 1960s. Julien's narratives focus on her relationship with her mother, family, community, and the city itself, while touching upon life after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Haunted by a colonial past associated with African presence, racial mixing, and suspect rituals, New Orleans has served the national imagination as a place of exoticism where objectionable people and unsavory practices can be found. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath revealed New Orleans' deep poverty and marginalized population, and brought a media storm that perpetuated the city's stigma. Travels with Mae lovingly restores the wonder of this great city, capturing both its beauty and its pain through the eyes of an insider.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. What I Keep in My Freezer; or You Are What You Eat
  8. Routines
  9. Oatmeal Collage
  10. A Streetcar Story
  11. A Glimmer of Gender
  12. Going to Algiers
  13. “Buttons, anyone?” A Pacific Street Story
  14. Room at the Top
  15. Connie
  16. The Jugs’ Ball
  17. “The Country”
  18. Facts of Life
  19. Money Troubles
  20. Fudge and Jelly Donuts
  21. The Shadow of Death
  22. A Woman’s Place
  23. Brother Boyfriends
  24. The House They Didn’t Buy
  25. Family Affairs
  26. She Would Have Typed All Night
  27. Small Victories
  28. Daddy’s Public Voice
  29. Hurricane Betsy
  30. Groovin’
  31. Christmas ’66
  32. My Mother, My Hair
  33. Getting Over It
  34. Eunice, Mae, and Me
  35. Man from the South
  36. Questions of Power
  37. Losing Mae
  38. Arriving Late
  39. Daddy’s Gumbo
  40. Conversation
  41. Reflections
  42. Revisiting
  43. Birthday Surprise
  44. Dakar Hair
  45. The Carnival Spirit
  46. Katrina
  47. The Wake of the Storm
  48. The Keys