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Ezra Pound's Fascist Propaganda, 1935-45 2013th Edition
Author(s): M. Feldman (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
- Publication Date: 4 Sept. 2013
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 1137345500
- ISBN-13: 9781137345509
Book Description
Often dismissed as simply ‘bad’ or ‘mad’, the nature of Ezra Pound’s fascist propaganda has been much discussed, but far less well understood to date. In consequence, the extent of Pound’s activism has been wildly underestimated; there are, for example, thousands of pro-Axis radio items during WWII. These manuscripts, extending to extensive propaganda strategies and a dozen pseudonymous names, collectively reveal a modernist author far more engaged with the Axis war effort than has been previously acknowledged. Feldman’s ‘new historicist’ approach argues that Pound was a committed, influential and significant Anglophone propagandist for Mosley’s BUF, Mussolini’s Italy and finally, Hitler’s Germany. Through close analysis of historical context and an approach to Pound’s fascist activism through the lens of ‘political religions’ theory, Ezra Pound’ Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945 challenges conventional wisdom on this canonical modernist by finding Pound to be a leading propagator of the ‘fascist faith’.
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About the Author
Matthew Feldman is a reader in contemporary history and co-director of the Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist Studies at Teeside University. He has held research fellowships at the universities of Northampton, Birmingham, Oxford and Bergen, Norway, and has written widely on fascism and terrorism as well as on archival approaches to modernism, especially the work of Samuel Beckett.
