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The Flood Year 1927 - A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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The Flood Year 1927 - A Cultural History (Hardcover)
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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.
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