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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... eroticized images of fascism and explores why brutal European dictatorships became so widely associated with eroticism and sexual deviance that " fascinating fascism ... sexualized representations of fascism , " Fascinating Fascism " 3.
... fascist enemy and subsequent construction of fascism in fantasy . My pri- mary questions are : Where do images of eroticized fascism come from ( that is , where and why are they produced ) ; what do they mean in relation to their ...
... Fascism ” and surfaces as such throughout the literature . In uncovering the genealogy of fictions of eroticized fascism , I aim to as- sess literary modernism and one of its unrecognized legacies and to address a recurring sexual ...
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The Origins of an Erotics | 29 |
Chapter 2 | 38 |
Chapter 3 | 59 |
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Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism Laura Catherine Frost Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
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