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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... tion and female submission . Similarly natural to Lilly is the designation of " inferior beings " and the " superior being " to which they will submit : he in- sists that this code is " written between a man's brows . " In the absence ...
... tion of von Ebrennac . In 1943 , Arthur Koestler wrote , in The Yogi and the Commissar , that he was unconvinced by Vercors's Nazi , " who in spite of his versatile intelligence has apparently never read a speech of Hitler's , nor seen ...
... tion , sec . F. Marsh , Patrick . " Jeanne d'Arc during the German Occupation . " Theatre Research Interna- tional 2 ( 1977 ) : 139–45 . Martin , Biddy . Femininity Played Straight . New York : Routledge , 1997 . Martin , Elaine , ed ...
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The Origins of an Erotics | 29 |
Chapter 2 | 38 |
Chapter 3 | 59 |
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