The fourth ghost : white Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950 /
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...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
