Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-399) and index.
Introduction: the fourth ghost -- Dangerous liaisons: the Nashville Agrarians -- Savagery on the frontier: W.J. Cash -- Pastoralism and extinction: William Alexander Percy -- Georgia on my mind: Lillian Smith -- You can't go to Germany, again: Thomas Wolfe -- Democracy's tall men: William Faulkner -- Something deathly in the air: Katherine Anne Porter -- Dispatches from the home front: Carson McCullers -- Pragmatism, idealism, responsibility: Robert Penn Warren -- Ravagers of the earth: Lillian Hellman -- Coda: the long shadow.
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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.
Fourth ghost.
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White Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950
American literature-- History and criticism-- White authors.
American literature-- Southern States-- History and criticism.
Authors, American-- Southern States-- Political and social views.
Fascism and literature-- Southern States-- History-- 20th century.