Trump’s fascist America

Rethinking 1984 and Brave New World
by Henry A. Giroux
Monthly Review, Volume 69, Issue 01 (May 2017)

Trump’s ascendancy in U.S. politics has made visible a plague of deep seated civic illiteracy, a corrupt political system, and a contempt for reason that has been decades in the making; it also points to the withering of civic attachments, the decline of public life, and the use of violence and fear to shock and numb everyday people. Galvanizing his base of true-believers in post-election rallies, the country witnesses how politics is transformed into a spectacle of fear, divisions, and disinformation. Under President Trump the scourge of twentieth-century fascism has returned as neo-fascism, not only in the menacing plague of populist rallies, fear-mongering, hate, and humiliation, but also in an emboldened culture of war, militarization, and violence that looms over society like a rising storm.

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Sylvia Plaths 50. Todestag

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer who commited suicide after having suffered from depression.

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‘The world itself is a bad dream’
On the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, the cool cynicism and snobbery of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has gone mainstream.
by Tim Blac, SP!KED 

Erzählungen von Sylvia Plath
Mehr als eine Märtyrerin
Bettina Hartz, Literatur Samstag, 9. Februar 2013, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Das Schaffen der Dichterin Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) wurde lange primär im Zeichen ihres tragischen Suizids wahrgenommen. Die autobiografische Lesart droht aber den Blick auf das literarische Potenzial ihres Werks zu verstellen.