The Epitome of Evil

This study explores the literary representations of Adolf Hitler in American fiction and makes the case that his figure has slowly developed from a means of left-wing critique into a device of right-wing affirmation.

Auteur

MICHAEL BUTTER is Junior Research Fellow at the School of Language and Literature, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany.

Contenu
The Emergence, Disappearance and Return of Hitler Fiction, 1939-1968 'Keeping the Monster Alive': The Cultural Work of Hitler Fiction Hitler, Nixon and Vietnam: Self-Critique in Early 1970s Fiction Children, Clones, Conspiracies: Projection in Late 1970s and Early 1980s Novels Enemies and Allegiances: External and Internal Othering since the mid-1980s Redeeming Hitler? Steve Erickson's Tours of the Black Clock (1989)