Title The aesthetics of hate : far-right intellectuals, antisemitism, and gender in 1930s France / Sandrine Sanos

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 369 pages) : illustrations Contents "The crisis is in man": the nation, the self, and cultural politics in the 1930s -- A genealogy of the far-right -- "Will we get out of French abjection?": the politics and aesthetics insurgency of the young new right -- The absent author: Maurice Blanchot and the subjection of politics -- "Negroid Jews against white men": Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the politics of literature -- The race of fascism: Je suis partout, race, and culture Summary This book examines the writings of a motley collection of interwar far-right intellectuals, showing that they defined Frenchness in racial, gendered, and sexual terms. A broad, ambitious cultural and intellectual history, the book offers a provocative reinterpretation of a topic that has long been the subject of controversy. In works infused with rhetorics of abjection, disgust, and dissolution, such writers as Maulnier, Brasillach, Céline, and Blanchot imagined the nation through figures deemed illegitimate or inferior - Jews, colonial subjects, homosexuals, women Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Right-wing extremists -- France -- History -- 20th century Radicalism -- France -- History -- 20th century Antisemitism -- France -- History -- 20th century Masculinity -- France -- History -- 20th century Fascist aesthetics -- France -- History -- 20th century Politics and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. HISTORY -- Europe -- France. Antisemitism Fascist aesthetics Intellectual life Masculinity Politics and government Politics and literature Radicalism Right-wing extremists SUBJECT France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051442 France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051485 Subject France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012014036 ISBN 9780804782838 0804782830

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