The Flood Year 1927
A Cultural History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157605 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan C Bergman (Seaford, New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1053-1054 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jax506 |
| OpenAlex | W2912106447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Disaster literature has experienced a rapid evolution from hackneyed tales of death and destruction wrapped in florid story lines into a diverse scholarly palette redolent with social, political, economic, and cultural meaning. Disasters offer great explanatory power and a useful lens to examine American culture. The great Mississippi flood of 1927 was one of the most destructive river floods in U.S. history and has been extensively studied in popular and scholarly texts. In The Flood Year 1927, Susan Scott Parrish, a professor of English and literature at the University of Michigan, eschews a pat retelling of the 1927 flood in favor of a multidisciplinary approach examining “how this disaster took on form and meaning ... across multiple media platforms” (p. 3). The shape and style this disaster took, according to Parrish, were unique to the modern age and mediated in the pages of local and national press, the broadcasts of radio programs, vaudevillian performances, literature, blues lyrics, and political cartoons
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cultural history · Culture of the United States · Economic history · Flood myth · Literature · Lyrics · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Style (visual arts · American Sports and Literature · Disaster Management and Resilience · History · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |