On May 1st 1925, with Mussolini already in power, a group of Italian intellectuals publicly denounced Mussolini’s fascist regime in an open letter. The signatories [...] The post A Century Later: A Renewed Open Letter Against the Return of Fascism appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus
Victor Klemperer’s diary is a remarkable testimony on life in Nazi Germany told from the perspective of someone whom the state sought to eradicate from the population—and it makes for chilling reading today. The post I Shall Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer in His Time, and Ours appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus
Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. The United States’ recently-held presidential election in November 2024 has thrown [...] The post Review: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus
Casteel, Sarah Phillips. Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Black Lives Under Nazism by [...] The post Review: Sarah Phillips Casteel, Black Lives Under Nazism appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus
“Queer history has a problem with memory,” Jennifer Evans contends in her rich and bold monograph that encourages its readers to think, and to think [...] The post Queer History that Surprises, Frustrates, Embarrasses, and Delights appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus
It is a pleasure and privilege to read and reflect on such a rich, urgent, and ambitious book. Jennifer Evans’ The Queer Art of History: [...] The post Seeing, Hearing, and Writing History Differently: Queer Kinship after Fascism appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus
French women used to gather at the communal laundry to wash clothes. While doing so, they exchanged precious information, shared the latest news, and created [...] The post Do Wash Your Dirty Linen in Public! On the Potential of Conflict in Queer German History appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus
I was reading Jennifer V. Evans’ magnificent The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism in the summer of 2023. As books have a [...] The post What is the Direction of Queer Kinship? On Jennifer Evans’s The Queer Art of History appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus
So often have I felt so much at odds with projects delineating a method for scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences that the very [...] The post Cozy Methodologies and Queer German Studies appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus
Seldom have I read such a mindful, emotionally, intellectually, and politically mature and thought-provoking history of post-fascist Germany, which captured my attention from the acknowledgments [...] The post Entanglements and Contingencies of Queer Lives in Postwar Germany: In Prospect of a Different Future appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus