Teaching It Can't Happen Here in the Trump Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4053218 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giulia Riccò |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue | 138 |
| Pages | 171-178 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-8359566 |
| OpenAlex | W3087428798 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
In the dystopian 1935 novel It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis imagines what it would look like if fascism came to the United States. It Can't Happen Here is a richly productive text for anybody interested in teaching fascism, but the work requires pedagogical caution, as students tend to find it overwhelming, especially in the post-2016-election era. In this short essay, I consider how best to teach students to read a novel that, though originally intended as a satirical take on the political situation of the United States and the world in the interwar period, has now become unnervingly relevant and prescient
Aesthetics · Art · Dystopia · Economic history · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Engineering · History · Law · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |