The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 Contributor(s): Brinkmeyer, Robert H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807133833 ISBN-13: 9780807133835 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism |
Dewey: 810.997 |
LCCN: 2008019088 |
Series: Southern Literary Studies (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.60 lbs) 432 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In the 1949 classic Killers of the Dream, Lillian Smith described three racial ghosts haunting the mind of the white South: the black woman with whom the white man often had sexual relations, the rejected child from a mixed-race coupling, and the black mammy whom the white southern child first loves but then must reject. In this groundbreaking work, Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., extends Smith's work by adding a fourth ghost lurking in the psyche of the white South -- the specter of European Fascism. He explores how southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s responded to Fascism, and most tellingly to the suggestion that the racial politics of Nazi Germany had a special, problematic relevance to the South and its segregated social system. |