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 +:Salvador Dalì'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?
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'''''Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism'''''. Catherine Frost. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, [[2002]]. '''''Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism'''''. Catherine Frost. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, [[2002]].

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Salvador Dalì'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?

Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism. Catherine Frost. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.

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Sexualized images of fascism are commonly assumed to be the creation of postwar and postmodern culture: How could anyone who had lived through fascism have such a mistaken understanding of it? Read the first page

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Funeral Rites, World War, The Silence of the Sea, Aaron's Rod, Joan of Arc, The Plumed Serpent, Three Guineas, United States, New York, Third Reich, French Resistance, Blue of Noon, Collected Poems, Fritz Bosch, Marguerite Duras, Wilhelm Reich, European History, Franco-Prussian War, Hans Bellmer, Miss Cavell, Fantasia of the Unconscious, George Orwell, John Bull, Klaus Theweleit, Les Lettres

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