Reassessing the 1930s South by Karen Cox Sarah Gardner

Author:Karen Cox, Sarah Gardner [Karen Cox, Sarah Gardner]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780807169216
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Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2018-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. Samuel I. Rosenman, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Year of Crisis, 1933 (New York: Random House, 1938), 122, 122–23.

2. See Shapiro, “The Southern Agrarians and the Tennessee Valley Authority,” American Quarterly 22, no. 4 (Winter 1970): 791–806, for an overview of the scholarly consensus on Southern Agrarian antipathy toward the TVA and compelling evidence for a nuanced understanding that allows for division in the ranks.

3. Donald Davidson, The Tennessee, vol. 2, The New River: Civil War to TVA (1948; Nashville: J. S. Sanders, 1992), 251, 237. Davidson’s sense of profound loss and displacement resonates in later cultural depictions of forced flooding conducted by the TVA. See, e.g., Robert Penn Warren’s novel Flood: A Romance of Our Time (1963; Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003). In it, Warren tells the story of Bradwell Tolliver, a writer who returns to his hometown of Fiddlersburg, Tennessee, to work on a film script about the community before it is inundated for dam construction. Tolliver becomes immersed in melancholia as he experiences alienation mixed with deep feelings of anticipatory loss.

4. Allen Tate, “The New Provincialism,” Essays of Four Decades (Chicago: Swallow, 1968), 545.

5. See, e.g., Leigh Anne Duck, The Nation’s Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006). This scholarship has also involved questioning the centrality of the Agrarians and the paradigm of the Southern Renascence in defining southern literature beyond modernism. For an example of this approach, see Martyn Bone, The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005).

6. Michael Szalay, New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000), 6.

7. David Lilienthal, TVA: Democracy on the March (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1944), xi. Roosevelt appointed Lilienthal, along with Arthur Morgan and Harcourt Morgan, to serve on a board of directors responsible for overseeing the TVA. For more on Lilienthal’s influence on the TVA, see Edwin C. Hargrove, Prisoners of Myth: The Leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933–1990 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), and C. Herman Pritchett, The Tennessee Valley Authority: A Study in Public Administration (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943).

8. Szalay, New Deal Modernism, 7.

9. Jane de Hart Mathews, The Federal Theatre, 1935–1939: Plays, Relief, and Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967), 113.

10. Kurt Eisen, “Circulating Power: National Theatre as Public Utility in the Federal Theatre Project,” Theatre Symposium 9 (2001): 39.

11. In New York City, sixty thousand people purchased advance tickets. The production got an added boost from a favorable review by Brooks Atkinson, the influential theater critic for the New York Times (Mathews, The Federal Theatre, 113).

12. Eisen, “Circulating Power,” 41.

13. Arthur Arent, Power, in Federal Theatre Plays, ed. Pierre De Rohan (New York: Da Capo, 1973), 61, 62.

14. Natalie J. Ring, The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880–1930 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012), 15.

15. National Emergency Council, Report on Economic Conditions of the South (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1938), https://archive.

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