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Bellocq’s Ophelia

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  • Natasha Trethewey
    In Natasha Trethewey

    Trethewey’s second volume, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002), was inspired by photographer E.J. Bellocq’s evocative portraits of Storyville (New Orleans) prostitutes, notably that of a mixed-race woman named Ophelia. In Native Guard (2006; Pulitzer Prize), Trethewey honoured both her mother’s life and the largely unsung lives of the Union soldiers…

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