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This book explores the anti-fascist novel in Britain: its origins in activists' experience, its solutions to questions of how to organise.
Some of the works Renton discusses are classics of twentieth-century literature including Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia. Some are or were best-sellers - including Len Deighton's SS-GB. The novels share certain themes: a central character is radicalised towards fascism and that decision shapes the protagonist's life for the worse. Alternatively, in a mirror version of the same pattern, a protagonist becomes an anti-fascist and seeks to improve the world around them. Renton explains the real-life history that these novels reflect and the committed anti-fascist politics with which they engage.
This book will be of interest to researchers of antifascism, and social, cultural, and political history.
Contents
Introduction: Anti-fascist Fiction? 1. Fascism Before the Fascist Party: Point Counter-Point 2. Against Misogyny: Swastika Night 3. All us Working Folks: October Day 4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Leader and Led 5. Bobbies against the Beast: SS-GB 6. Democracy as Hard Talking: The Remains of the Day 7. The Buddha of Suburbia: The Artists are our Allies 8. Fascism in a War of Position: Heartland 9. Ogling the Enemy: Children of the Sun 10. The Necessity and Limits of Taking Sides: A World Between Us 11. Investigative Anti-fascism: Ridley Road 12. Not Fire or Fury but Tedium: After the Party Conclusion: The Rules of the Anti-fascist Novel Appendix: 100 Anti-fascist Novels Published in Britain 1923-2023
