Abstract
New Orleans is a colonial city that has had to justify its existence since its foundation in 1718 and to project itself into performance, to rely on the exterior value of its own spectacle in order to survive. Scholarship has traditionally emphasized its segregated organization because native tribes were maintained firmly outside its walls, administrative and business quarters were built in a tightly knit square and “free people of colour” formed a distinct class, but this paper explores a different reality and argues that the confined space occupied by the city meant that traffic, negotiations and exchanges of all kinds took place between the denizens of its various neighbourhoods. The focus is on the inextricable ties binding people to the cityscape by mapping out linguistic polyphony, cultural diversity and the complex networks of representations animating the city and conferring upon it a fascinating array of signs.
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