The Resource The flood year 1927 : a cultural history, Susan Scott Parrish
The flood year 1927 : a cultural history, Susan Scott Parrish
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- Summary
- "The 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 "great relief machine," 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 “concentration camps” 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 “the most colossal blunder in civilized history.” 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" -- From the publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 396 pages
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Contents
-
- Introduction
- Modern overflow
- Disaster's public. A northern army of relief
- Cross talk in the press
- Bessie's eclogue
- Catastrophe comes to Vaudeville
- Modernism within a second nature. William Faulkner and the machine age watershed
- Richard Wright : environment, media, and race
- Conclusion : Noah's kin
- Isbn
- 9780691168838
- Label
- The flood year 1927 : a cultural history
- Title
- The flood year 1927
- Title remainder
- a cultural history
- Statement of responsibility
- Susan Scott Parrish
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The 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 "great relief machine," 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 “concentration camps” 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 “the most colossal blunder in civilized history.” 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" -- From the publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Parrish, Susan Scott
- Dewey number
-
- 977/.043
- 976./042
- 977./032
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F354
- LC item number
- .P27 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Floods
- Disaster relief
- Mississippi River Valley
- Mississippi River Valley
- Mississippi River Valley
- Label
- The flood year 1927 : a cultural history, Susan Scott Parrish
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-368) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Modern overflow -- Disaster's public. A northern army of relief -- Cross talk in the press -- Bessie's eclogue -- Catastrophe comes to Vaudeville -- Modernism within a second nature. William Faulkner and the machine age watershed -- Richard Wright : environment, media, and race -- Conclusion : Noah's kin
- Control code
- ocn946254933
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 396 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691168838
- Lccn
- 2016009841
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780691168838
- (OCoLC)946254933
- Label
- The flood year 1927 : a cultural history, Susan Scott Parrish
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-368) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Modern overflow -- Disaster's public. A northern army of relief -- Cross talk in the press -- Bessie's eclogue -- Catastrophe comes to Vaudeville -- Modernism within a second nature. William Faulkner and the machine age watershed -- Richard Wright : environment, media, and race -- Conclusion : Noah's kin
- Control code
- ocn946254933
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 396 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691168838
- Lccn
- 2016009841
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780691168838
- (OCoLC)946254933
Subject
- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 1865-
- Mississippi River Valley -- In literature
- Disaster relief -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 20th century
- Since 1865
- Mississippi River Valley -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Floods -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 20th century
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