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Lafcadio Hearn's Chita and the Spanish-Speaking Americas
- Studies in the Novel
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 50, Number 2, Summer 2018
- pp. 213-232
- 10.1353/sdn.2018.0010
- Article
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Abstract:
This essay argues that Lafcadio Hearn's novella Chita: Memory of Last Isle (1889) situates New Orleans and Louisiana's coast as a part of the cultural world of the Gulf of Mexico and the rest of the Spanish-speaking Americas.