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

by Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. and Robert H. Brinkmeyer

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"