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Swastika Night
Katharine Burdekin

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Swastika Night

The Feminist Press at CUNY (1 Jan 1993)
9780935312560
| Paperback
208 pages | 127 x 198 mm | English
$ 33.95 | Value: $ 33.95
Dewey 823.912
LC Classification PR6003.U45 .S8 1985
LC Control No. 85012980

Genre

  • Fiction

Subject

  • Fiction / General
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General
  • Lesbians In Literature
  • Novela Inglesa
  • Social Science / Women's Studies

Plot

Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, this novel projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. They are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished all history, education, creativity, books, and art. Not even the memory of culture remains. The plot centers on a ‘misfit’ who asks, as readers must, ‘How could this have happenned?’