Title: Thinking fascism
First published: 1998
Description: Thinking Fascism analyzes three works by women writers - Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du reve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938) - that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology.

Through these analyses, the author explores the conjunction between fascism and other forms of modernity, and refines the discussion about the relationship between women intellectuals and the various aesthetic and ideological practices collected under the names of modernism and facism.

By demonstrating that women writers like the Sapphic Modernists and conservative or fascist male modernists often articulated very similar conceptions of these problems, this book suggests that fascism cannot be posed as the absolute other of non- or even anti-fascist politico cultural discourses in the interwar period.
Subjects: History and criticism, Fiction, Fascism and literature, Feminism and literature, Feminist fiction, Modernism (Literature), Women authors, Women and literature, History, Barnes, djuna, 1892-1982, Yourcenar, marguerite, 1903-1987, Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941, Fiction, women authors, history and criticism, Fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Faschismus, Feminismus, Literatuur, Fascisme, Roman, Thèmes, motifs, Modernisme (littérature), Fascisme et littérature, Féminisme et littérature, Denier du rêve (Yourcenar, Marguerite), Nightwood (Barnes, Djuna), Three guineas (Woolf, Virginia), Three guineas, Denier du rêve, Nightwood
People: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Djuna Barnes, Marguerite Yourcenar
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PN3401 .C37 1998