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Katharine Burdekin

Published in 1937 under the pseudonym 'Murray Constantine', and republished in 1985 in England and the U.S. Swastika Night reflects Burdekin's analysis of the masculine element in fascist ideology. The novel depicts a future in which the world has been divided between two militaristic powers: the Nazis and the Japanese. Set hundreds of years into the future, this dystopia envisions a sterile, dying Nazi Reich, in which Jews have long since been eradicated, Christians are marginalized, and Hitler is venerated as a God. A "cult of masculinity" prevails, and a "reduction of women" has occurred: deprived of all rights, women are kept in concentration camps, their sole value residing in their reproductive roles. Swastika Night has been described as a "pioneering feminist critique".
The novel bears striking similarities to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, published more than a decade later: the past has been destroyed and history is rewritten, language is distorted, few books exist apart from propaganda, and a secret book is the only witness to the past.

Idioma Inglés
Publicación 1937 (1985)
Editorial The Feminist Press at CUNY
Categoría Ciencia Ficción


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