Sex Drives

[Natália Portinari]

yes, sure to be very interesting.
i was reading the oven part in GR just de other day, it illustrates  
this very well...

On 19/02/2011, at 17:40, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Wow. A kind of long annotated footnote to some of Pynchon's deepest  
> themes...
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> Sent: Sat, February 19, 2011 11:17:47 AM
> Subject: Sex Drives
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> SEX DRIVES
> Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism
> Laura Frost
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> $25.95s paper
> 2001, 208 pages, 6 x 9, 12 halftones
> ISBN: 978-0-8014-8764-4  Quantity
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> 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?
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> Laura Frost advances a compelling reading of works by D. H. Lawrence,
> Virginia Woolf, Jean Genet, Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, and
> Sylvia Plath, paying special attention to undercurrents of
> enthrallment with tyrants, uniforms, and domination. She argues that
> the first generation of writers raised within psychoanalytic discourse
> found in fascism the libidinal unconscious through which to fantasize
> acts—including sadomasochism and homosexuality—not permitted in a
> democratic conception of sexuality without power relations. By
> delineating democracy's investment in a sexually transgressive
> fascism, an investment that persists to this day, Frost demonstrates
> how politics enters into fantasy. This provocative and closely-argued
> book offers both a fresh contribution to modernist literature and a
> theorization of fantasy.
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> http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=3715
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> Table of Contents
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> http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/toc/Frost.sex.toc.pdf
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