-
The Empty Chair Is Not So Empty: Ghosts and the Performance of Memory in Post-Katrina New Orleans
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 57, Number 1, Spring 2013 (T217)
- pp. 102-115
- Article
- Additional Information
The empty chairs found in photographs taken in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are unfillable voids. This major natural disaster transforms the everyday object of the chair, magnified by the medium of photography, into an extraordinary place full of potentiality for the performance of memory, for haunting, and for ghosts.