Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture Between the Wars

by Mark Christian Thompson

Book Overview

In this provocative new book, Mark Christian Thompson addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. Thompson surveys the work and thought of several authors and asserts that their sometimes positive reaction to generic European fascism, and its transformation into black fascism, is crucial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813926718
• ISBN13: 9780813926711
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher