The aesthetics of hate [electronic resource] : far-right intellectuals, antisemitism, and gender in 1930s France / Sandrine Sanos.

ISBN:

9780804782838

Title:

Author:

Sanos, Sandrine.

Personal Author:

Sanos, Sandrine.

Publication Information:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.

Physical 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.

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Subject Term:

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.

Geographic Term:

France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2013

Publication Information:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.

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Summary

This book examines how a group of young far-right intellectuals in the 1930s reimagined the French nation through the lens of gender and race, connecting both antisemitism and colonial racism in order to define the "new French man."

Author Notes

Sandrine Sanos is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Texas A & M University--Corpus Christi.

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Choice Review

In this study of far-Right intellectuals in 1930s France, Sanos (Texas A & M Univ.-Corpus Christi) argues that the "Young New Right"--Brasillach, Celine, Rebatet, and others--perceived France as hopelessly decadent and besieged by threatening Others--most notably, the Jews. To escape this state of "abjection," fascist intellectuals embraced "aesthetics as politics," mobilizing a normative vision of aggressive masculinity to regenerate society and defend the boundaries of the self against threats of corruption and penetration. Sanos persuasively argues that the boundaries between avowed fascists and allegedly moderate conservatives were more porous, and the influence of the far Right on interwar French culture far more substantial, than usually acknowledged. She also contends that gender and race were conflated in French fascist demonology with the Jew, and especially archvillain Leon Blum, presented as sexually ambiguous and seductive. The book is heavy on theory, particularly Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, and while the immediate historical context is well developed, contributing factors such as the brutalizing hecatomb of WW I and the threat of the 1920s "new woman" are suggested, but not explored. Nevertheless, Sanos has provided a vital resource for the intellectual history of interwar France. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty. D. A. Harvey New College of Florida