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

by Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807176230
• ISBN13: 9780807176238
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"