The Psycho-Cultural Underpinnings of Everyday Fascism, Marcia Tiburi

 

The Psycho-Cultural Underpinnings of Everyday Fascism:  Dialog as resistance by Marcia Tiburi was written before Bolsonaro was elected Prime Minister of Brazil.

Started: 8/5/2023
Completed: Did Not Finish
Recommendation: Not Recommended
Recommended By: I am not sure, I cannot remember how I came across this book even though it was rather recent.

Review:

I wish that I could read Portuguese.  There is little doubt in my mind that this book has not been translated well.  Tortured sentences like, "Fascism is the appropriate name to speak about the right-wing extremists that returned from the underground of history to our days," are constantly present.  Even sentences that I think I could reword, "We can define as fascism the phenomenon involving the rise of Jair Bolsonaro," into "Jair Bolsonaro's rise is the very definition of fascism," seem to lose something.  I, unfortunately, cannot parse the language used by the translator.