Swastika NightFeminist Press at CUNY, 1985 - 196 pages    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?" Ann J. Lane calls the novel a "brilliant, chilling dystopia." "This is a powerful, haunting vision of the inner and outer worlds of male violence."- Blanche Wiesen Cook , author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884-1933 |
Contents
Chapter One | 5 |
Chapter Two | 16 |
Chapter Three | 31 |
Chapter Four | 55 |
Chapter Five | 75 |
Chapter Six | 100 |
Chapter Seven | 127 |
Chapter Eight | 153 |
Chapter Nine | 169 |
Chapter Ten | 186 |
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