The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 Brinkmeyer Robert H.
The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 Brinkmeyer Robert H. In the 1949 classic Killers of the Dream, Lillian Smith described three racial ghosts haunting the mind…
Specifikacia The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 Brinkmeyer Robert H.
The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 Brinkmeyer Robert H.
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. Brinkmeyer, Jr., extends Smith's work by adding a fourth ghost lurking in the psyche of the white South -- the specter of European Fascism. In this groundbreaking work, Robert H.
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.As Brinkmeyer shows, nearly all white southern writers in these decades felt impelled to deal with this specter and with the implications for southern