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Reassessing the 1930s South (Hardcover)
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Reassessing the 1930s South (Hardcover)
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Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as
home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and
physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven
untouched by the nation's financial troubles. Though these images
stand as polar opposites, each casts the South as an exceptional
region that stood separate from American norms. Reassessing the
1930s South brings together historians, art critics, and literary
scholars to provide a new social and cultural history of the Great
Depression South that moves beyond common stereotypes of the
region. Essays by Steven Knepper, Anthony J. Stanonis, and Bryan A.
Giemza delve into the literary culture of the 1930s South and the
multiple ways authors such as Sterling Brown, Tennessee Williams,
and E. P. O'Donnell represented the region to outsiders. Lisa
Dorrill and Robert W. Haynes explore connections between artists
and the South in essays on New Deal murals and southern dramatists
on Broadway. Rejecting traditional views of southern resistance to
modernization, Douglas E. Thompson and Ted Atkinson survey the
cultural impacts of technological advancement and
industrialization. Emily Senefeld, Scott L. Matthews, Rebecca
Sharpless, and Melissa Walker compare public representations of the
South in the 1930s to the circumstances of everyday life. Finally,
Ella Howard, Nicholas Roland, and Robert Hunt Ferguson examine the
ways southern governments and activists shaped racial perceptions
and realities in Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee. Reassessing the
1930s South provides an interpretation that focuses on the region's
embrace of technological innovation, promotion of
government-sponsored programs of modernization, rejection of the
plantation legend of the late nineteenth century, and
experimentation with unionism and interracialism. Taken
collectively, these essays provide a better understanding of the
region's identity, both real and perceived, as well as how
southerners grappled with modernity during a decade of uncertainty
and economic hardship.
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