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The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950
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The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 Hardcover - 2009

by Robert H. Brinkmeyer


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  • Title The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950
  • Author Robert H. Brinkmeyer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher LSU Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-01-01
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780807133835 / 0807133833
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.2 x 1.4 in (22.86 x 15.75 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: South
  • Library of Congress subjects Racism in literature, American literature - Southern States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008019088
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.997

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Citations

  • Choice, 10/01/2009, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 02/27/2009, Page 18

About the author

Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., is professor of English and southern studies at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West, Katherine Anne Porter's Artistic Development: Primitivism, Traditionalism, and Totalitarianism, The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor, and Three Catholic Writers of the Modern South.

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Hardback. New. 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. As Brinkmeyer shows, nearly all white southern writers in these decades felt impelled to deal with this specter and with the implications for southern identity of the issues… Read More
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