Sex Drives : Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism /

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Salvador Dalí's autobiography confesses that "Hitler turned me on in the highest," while Sylvia Plath maintains that "every woman adores a Fascist." Susan Sontag's famous observation that art reveals the seamier side of fascism in bondage, discipline, and sexual devian...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frost, Laura Catherine, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Litterature > 20e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Sexualite > Dans la litterature.
Fascisme dans la litterature.
Sex in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Fascism in literature.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
Litterature > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fascism and sadomasochism: the origins of an erotics
  • The libidinal politics of D.H. Lawrence's "leadership novels"
  • The surreal swastikas of Georges Bataille and Hans Bellemer
  • Beauty and the Boche: propaganda and the sexualized enemy in Vercors's Silence of the sea
  • Horizontal treason: Jean Genet's Funeral rites
  • "Every woman adores a fascist": Marguerite Duras, Sylvia Plath, and feminist visions of fascism
  • "This cellar of the present."

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