D. K. Renton – författare

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.

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.

Forgiveness is necessary in the long fight for a just world—but it is only possible after the oppressed are victoriousFor too long, revolutionary social movements have reconciled to defeat. We must start winning again. Forgiveness is a crucial strategy for remaking the world, to secure and sustain victories, to transform one-time enemies into friends.With deep political commitment, D. K. Renton makes the case for forgiveness—but of a particularly unruly sort. Tracing the tragic abuse of Eleanor Marx and Jane Wells, the mistakes of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye, Renton urges us to forgive, but only after tearing down the citadels of the rich.Revolutionary Forgiveness connects collective struggle with the individual’s search for justice to demand a better future for all—when the oppressed will be magnanimous in power, and even former oppressors will be free.“Renton rescues ‘forgiveness' from the pulpit and returns it, bloodied but lucid, to history.”—Richard Seymour, author of Disaster Nationalism