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050 00 $aPS261$b.B744 2009
082 00 $a810.9/975$222
100 1 $aBrinkmeyer, Robert H.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84150605
245 14 $aThe fourth ghost :$bwhite Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950 /$cRobert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axv, 413 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSouthern literary studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 373-399) and index.
520 1 $a"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 work, Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., extends Smith's analysis 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 raised by Nazism and Fascism. Their responses varied widely, ranging from repression and denial to the repulsion of self-recognition. Brinkmeyer examines the work of writers who contemplated the connection between the authoritarianism and racial politics of Nazi Germany and southern culture. He shows how white southern writers - both those writing cultural criticism and those writing imaginative literature - turned to Fascist Europe for images, analogies, and metaphors for representing and understanding the conflict between traditional and modern cultures that they were witnessing in Dixie." "Brinkmeyer considers the works of a wide range of authors of varying political stripes: the Nashville Agrarians, W. J. Cash, Lillian Smith, William Alexander Percy, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, Robert Penn Warren, and Lillian Hellman. He argues persuasively that by engaging in their works the vital contemporary debates about totalitarianism and democracy, these writers reconfigured their understanding not only of the South but also of themselves as southerners, and of the nature and significance of their art."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101055
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xWhite authors.
650 0 $aFascism and literature$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$zSouthern States$xPolitical and social views.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xIn literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111638
650 0 $aFascism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004177
650 0 $aRacism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008446
830 0 $aSouthern literary studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42022954
852 00 $bglx$hPS261$i.B744 2009