Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism

by Laura Frost

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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 deviance would certainly appear to be true in modernist and postwar literary texts. How do we account for eroticized representations of fascism in anti-fascist literature, for sexual desire...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801487641

ISBN13:9780801487644

Release Date:November 2001

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Fantasy History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Modernism Movements & Periods Political Science

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