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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... submission . ( 288 ) ... Lilly echoes Lawrence's theory in " Fantasia " of an original " urge of power " but adds that the initial power structure has a natural order of male domina- tion and female submission . Similarly natural to ...
... submission ? And , most persistent and difficult of all the questions that our silence covers , what possible satisfaction can dominance give to the dominator ? ( 129 ) As if reworking Hegel's master - slave dialectic , Woolf stipulates ...
Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism Laura Catherine Frost. " craving for submission , " and " the patriarch " is " calling for the siren❞ ( 3 ) . However , for Plath , submission also has a great interest in domination . The ...
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The Origins of an Erotics | 29 |
Chapter 2 | 38 |
Chapter 3 | 59 |
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