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

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by Sanos, Sandrine.
Call Number 303.4840944 23
Publication Date 2013
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.
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Unlikely collaboration [electronic resource] : Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy dilemma / Barbara Will.

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by Will, Barbara.
Call Number 818.5209 22
Publication Date 2011
Summary In 1941, Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two speeches in which Pétain outlines the Vichy policy barring Jews and other ""foreign elements"" from the public sphere and calls for France to reconcile with Nazi occupiers. Unlikely Collaboration pursues a troubling question: Why and under what circumstances would Stein.
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McLuhan and Baudrillard : the masters of implosion / Gary Genosko.

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by Genosko, Gary.
Call Number 302.230922 21
Publication Date 1999
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