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Sex drives : fantasies of fascism in literary modernism

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...
Print Book, English, 2002
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801438943, 9780801487644, 0801438942, 0801487641
47023548
Fascism and sadomasochism: the origins of an erotics
The libidinal politics of D.H. Lawrence's "leadership novels"
The surreal swastikas of Georges Bataille and Hans Bellemer
Beauty and the Boche: propaganda and the sexualized enemy in Vercors's Silence of the sea
Horizontal treason: Jean Genet's Funeral rites
"Every woman adores a fascist": Marguerite Duras, Sylvia Plath, and feminist visions of fascism
"This cellar of the present."