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Foreword: The Artful and Crafty Ones of the French Quarter by RobinMiller; Introduction: Building Literary Louisiana; Women, Work, and Culturein Reconstruction Louisiana; Under Reconstruction: Lafcadio Hearn in NewOrleans (1877-1887) by Richard Collins; Sallie Rhett Roman of the New OrleansTimes-Democrat: Race, Women, and Southern Aristocracy in the Novellas, Tonie(1900) and Folette of Timbalier Island (1900) by Nancy Dixon; "Do You NotKnow That Women Can Make Money?": Women and Labor in Louisiana Literature byTiffany Duet; Living "Amid Romance": Ethnic Cultures in Ruth McEnery Stuart'sNew Orleans Stories by Joan Wiley Hall; Louisiana During the Modernist Period1919-1945; William Faulkner's Two-Basket Stories by Jo LeCoeur; Cakewalks,Cauls, and Conjure: Folk Traditions in Arna Bontemp's God Sends Sunday and "ASummer Tragedy" by Lisa Abney; "Huey Long" as Deep South Dictator: A Lion isin the Streets as Novel and Film by Philip Dubuisson Castille; Depictions ofRace and Class 1865-1945; Behind "The White Veil": Alice Dunbar-Nelson,Creole Color, and The Goodness of St. Rocque by Pamela Glenn Menke; Maskingand Racial Passing at Mardi Gras in Lyle Saxon's "Have a Good Time While YouCan" by Larry D. Griffin; "The nigger that's going to sleep with yoursister"; Charles Bon as Cultural Shibboleth in Absalom, Absaloml by Erin E.Campbell; The "All-Seeing Eye" in Grace King's Balcony Stories by SusieScifres Kuilan; The Irreducible African: Challenges to Racial Stereotypes inGeorge Washington Cable's The Grandissimes by R. Allen Alexander, Jr.; "WhyDon't She Stay in Her Class?"; Caste Structures in Lyle Saxon's Children ofStrangers and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God by SuzanneDisheroon-Green; Bibliography; Index.