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Sex Drives : Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism by Laura Catherine Frost is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>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?</p> <p>
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- Author
- Laura Catherine Frost
- Publisher
- Cornell Univercity Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801438943
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Political Science
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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