Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.
Contents
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."