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 |  | Gerstäcker's Louisiana
Fiction and Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times through Reconstruction
Edited and translated by Dr. Irene Di Maio
Gerstäcker's aim as a writer was to inform and entertain, especially through humor, drama, and suspense. His works—including his fiction—sustain an almost ethnographic level of detail. The stories, travel sketches, and novel excerpts included here comment on slavery and its aftermath, ethnic and racial diversity, transcultural relations, and immigration and multilingualism. Gerstäcker's impressions of Louisiana remain relevant and deeply engaging. |
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