Flood Year 1927 (eBook)

A Cultural History

Susan Scott Parrish (Autor)

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2016
416 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8426-1 (ISBN)

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Susan Scott Parrish is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan. She is the author of American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World.

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A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi floodThe Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history. Due to the speed of new media and the slow progress of the flood, this was the first environmental disaster to be experienced on a mass scale. As it moved from north to south down an environmentally and technologically altered valley, inundating plantations and displacing more than half a million people, the flood provoked an intense and lasting cultural response. The Flood Year 1927 draws from newspapers, radio broadcasts, political cartoons, vaudeville, blues songs, poetry, and fiction to show how this event took on public meanings.Americans at first seemed united in what Herbert Hoover called a "e;great relief machine,"e; but deep rifts soon arose. Southerners, pointing to faulty federal levee design, decried the attack of Yankee water. The condition of African American evacuees in "e;concentration camps"e; prompted pundits like W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells to warn of the return of slavery to Dixie. And environmentalists like Gifford Pinchot called the flood "e;the most colossal blunder in civilized history."e; Susan Scott Parrish examines how these and other key figures-from entertainers Will Rogers, Miller & Lyles, and Bessie Smith to authors Sterling Brown, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright-shaped public awareness and collective memory of the event.The crises of this period that usually dominate historical accounts are war and financial collapse, but The Flood Year 1927 enables us to assess how mediated environmental disasters became central to modern consciousness.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.12.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 45 halftones. 3 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 2005 • African American Culture • African Americans • Agriculture • Allegory • americans • Anthem • As I lay dying • Atlantic World • Back-Water Blues • Bessie Smith • black boy • black people • Black Refugee (War of 1812) • Blacks • Blame • colored • Color line (civil rights issue) • deforestation • dichotomy • disaster • Drainage • Drainage basin • early modern period • Ecology • editorial • Engineering • Environmental Crisis • Environmental Degradation • Environmental Disaster • environmental disasters • Environmental history • Environmentalist • environmental justice • environmental theater • Flood • Flood myth • Gifford Pinchot • Great Mississippi Flood • Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 • Harlem Renaissance • Herbert Hoover • Herbert Spencer • His Family • Historiography • H. L. Mencken • Household • Hurricane Katrina • Ida B. Wells • Illustration • Infrastructure • Iphigenia in Tauris • John Dewey • John Heartfield • Journalism • laborer • Literary modernism • Literature • Lyle Saxon • lynching • mass catastrophe • Media Coverage • Minstrel Show • Mississippi Delta • Mississippi River • Mississippi watershed • modernism • Modernity • Modernization • Mr. • Mrs. • narrative • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Native Son • newspaper • Noah's Ark • Oxford University Press • paternalism • Poem • Poetry • Politician • Populism • Princeton University Press • Print Culture • Psychoanalysis • Publication • publicist • Publicity • public meaning • Public Opinion • Public sphere • pundit • Racism • Ralph Ellison • Random House • Red Cross • Refugee camp • rhetoric • Richard Schechner • Richard Wright • River flood • Romanticism • Satire • Short Story • Slavery • Social engagement • Sociology • Songwriting • Stuart Chase • Suggestion • Technology • THE CHICAGO DEFENDER • The New York Times • theory • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction • Ulrich Beck • Uncertainty • Uncle Tom's Children • United States • Vaudeville • Vaudeville performers • vulnerability • W. E. B. Du Bois • wetland • white people • white southerners • William Alexander Percy • William Faulkner • World War I • World War II • Writing • zora neale hurston
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8426-8 / 1400884268
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8426-1 / 9781400884261