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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... story and her muteness magnify these moments . The end of the story is striking : once , and only once , von Ebrennac's peace- ful , carefully tempered character is shattered . He has returned disillusioned from meetings in Paris that ...
... story also gestures toward erotic metaphors that cast the Occupation as a marriage or courtship , which , as Ka- plan points out in Reproductions of Banality , were usually gendered as “ a ( sex- ual ) occupation by a phallic ( Nazi ) ...
... Story of O ( Histoire d'O , 1954 ) , has even more directly suggested that the livres roses influenced her erotic imag- ination . Like Vercors , Réage came of age during World War I ; she was born in 1907 , thus sharing with Vercors a ...
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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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