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| Original Title: | Swastika Night |
| ISBN: | 0935312560 (ISBN13: 9780935312560) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Munich (München),2609(Germany) |
Katharine Burdekin
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.62 | 1712 Users | 213 Reviews
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| Title | : | Swastika Night |
| Author | : | Katharine Burdekin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | 1985 by The Feminist Press at CUNY (first published 1937) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Alternate History. Classics |
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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?”Rating About Books Swastika Night
Ratings: 3.62 From 1712 Users | 213 ReviewsAppraise About Books Swastika Night
Katherine Budekin wrote her frightening vision of a Nazi future in 1937, at the height of Hitler's power in Germany, as a scathing attack on the powerful patriarchies engaged in fascism. Her argument , however, goes far beyond the confines of Nazism and her imaginary Nazi future. She is concerned with the history of all of Western Civilization: a history driven by gender politics, wherein women's voices have been erased from the collective memory almost as completely as her Nazis wiped out theThis book makes 1984 look like the land of Shiny Happy People.
3,5 stars.Nothing much happens in this book except men sitting around talking about history and women and themselves. It is intriguing however. A world where everyone is ruled by the nazis or the Japanese, where Hitler is worshipped as an aryan god and where women live in cages like cattle and even the most enlightened man has trouble seeing how a woman could ever have a soul or contribute anything worthwhile into society or even be considered human. What really makes this interesting is that it
Very strange book. Interesting concept for a dystopian world, and even more interesting because of the time it was written. But still a rather odd story.
Swastika Night envisions a world thousands of years in the future in which the Nazis have joint world dominance with the Japanese and the past before Hitler has been obliterated from collective memory. It is a static world in which Hitler is worshiped as a blond, blue-eyed Viking-god that was not born of woman but exploded, where Knights rule small feudal societies, where the cult of manliness dominates to such an extent that boys are taken as lovers and women are hairless cattle kept in cages,
Hitler is worshipped as a god and not a single book of history remains to contradict his story...or does it?This was written in 1937, and is as remarkable a bit of prognostication as I have ever read. It suffers from excessive explaining through dialogue, clunky characters, weird ideas about women being fundamentally different than men (even once you get past the Handmaid's Tale-type elements), and general preachiness. But yowza what it got right, and ouch, how much of it feels relevant today.
Like many people, Ive been panicky over this current political administration and have turned to literature if not to make me feel better, at least to make something feel eerily familiar. While George Orwells 1984 and Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale have been popular picks as of late, I opted for Katharine Burdekins Swastika Night. It has a lot of things I generally look out for in literature: forbidden books/books with secret knowledge, rebellious characters that defy an obviously corrupt
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