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Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, Swastika Night projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. Women 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. The plot centers on a “misfit” who asks, “How could this have happened?”
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Grave, bleak, earnest and classical in form.
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- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Katharine Burdekin
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 196
- Publisher
- Lawrence and Wishart, PIRANHA, Feminist Press at The City University of New York
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781558616271
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Katharine Burdekin was a British novelist who wrote speculative fiction concerned with social and spiritual matters. She was the sister of Rowena Cade, creator of the Minack Theatre in Cornwall. - Wikipedia
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