Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary ModernismCornell University Press, 2002 - 197 páginas 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 that escapes the bounds of politics?Laura Frost advances a compelling reading of works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Jean Genet, Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, and Sylvia Plath, paying special attention to undercurrents of enthrallment with tyrants, uniforms, and domination. She argues that the first generation of writers raised within psychoanalytic discourse found in fascism the libidinal unconscious through which to fantasize acts--including sadomasochism and homosexuality--not permitted in a democratic conception of sexuality without power relations. By delineating democracy's investment in a sexually transgressive fascism, an investment that persists to this day, Frost demonstrates how politics enters into fantasy. This provocative and closely-argued book offers both a fresh contribution to modernist literature and a theorization of fantasy. |
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... Genet's erotic scenes , the fascist characters do not have " total power over others . " Instead , according to the sadomasochistic dynamic , they both desire others and are subject to the desires of others . They respond and are ...
... Genet writes , " cartoonists caricatured Hitler as a Maid with clownish features and a movie comedian's mustache . ' He hears voices , ' said the captions . . . . Did the cartoonists feel that Hitler was Joan of Arc ? " Genet worries ...
... Genet : A Casebook , ed . Richard N. Coe ( New York : Grove , 1970 ) , 69 . 4. François Mauriac , “ The Case of Jean Genet , ” Le Figaro Littéraire , 26 March 1944 , quoted in Coe , Theater of Jean Genet , 82 . 5. This is the " Jean de ...
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The Origins of an Erotics | 29 |
Chapter 2 | 38 |
Chapter 3 | 59 |
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