Plowed Under - by Ann Folino White (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>White provides a riveting account of the theatrical strategies used by consumers, farmers, agricultural laborers, and the federal government to negotiate competing rights to food and the moral contradictions of capitalist society in times of economic crisis.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order to stabilize food prices and restore the market economy. Fruit was left to rot on trees, crops were plowed under, and millions of piglets and sows were slaughtered and discarded. Many Americans saw the government action as a senseless waste of food that left the hungry to starve, initiating public protests against food and farm policy. White approaches these events as performances where competing notions of morality and citizenship were acted out, often along lines marked by class, race, and gender. The actions range from the Milk War that pitted National Guardsmen against dairymen, who were dumping milk, to the meat boycott staged by Polish-American women in Michigan, and from the black sharecroppers' protest to restore agricultural jobs in Missouri to the protest theater of the Federal Theater Project. White provides a riveting account of the theatrical strategies used by consumers, farmers, agricultural laborers, and the federal government to negotiate competing rights to food and the moral contradictions of capitalist society in times of economic crisis.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>[A] stimulating study of New Deal America</p>-- "The Annals of Iowa"<br><br><p>[White's] book offers an insightful examination of how performance, and particularly food in performance, defines and questions the ethics of food production, sale, and consumption. Plowed Under contributes significantly to ongoing studies of the performance of food and the performativity of protests, and also serves as an important history of the Great Depression itself.</p>-- "Theatre Journal"<br><br><p>Plowed Under is thoroughly researched and skilfully conceived. Its performance-oriented approach illuminates genuine tensions and disagreements between the administration and many of the nation's citizens and provides intriguing insights into New Deal culture.</p>-- "Modern Drama"<br><br><p>Plowed Under provides a fertile field for future research on New Deal agiculture and social activism. . . . White's merging of performance studies and history will also offer a useful model to analyze the theatrical and cultural strategies that inform public protest in America.</p>-- "Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"<br><br><p>Plowed Under will prove useful for scholars of agriculture, public policy, political culture, and the New Deal, and it presents an invaluable perspective for any historian of the twentieth century.</p>-- "Indiana Magazine of History"<br><br><p>White's study makes an invaluable contribution to history, theater history, cultural studies, American studies, and other fields.</p>-- "Journal of American History"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Ann Folino White is Head of Theatre Studies in the Department of Theatre at Michigan State University.</p>
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