Katharine Burdekin
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.62 | 1712 Users | 213 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Swastika Night |
| ISBN: | 0935312560 (ISBN13: 9780935312560) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Munich (München),2609(Germany) |
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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?”Details Appertaining To Books Swastika Night
| 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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Ratings: 3.62 From 1712 Users | 213 ReviewsPiece Appertaining To Books Swastika Night
Swastika Night is scary. It's scary because the alternate-history/dystopian future that Burdekin explores is one that could very much come to fruition, you only have to turn on the tv and listen to the way world leaders talk about gender equality, or look at rulings in criminal cases, to see the degradation of anyone who wasn't born a cis white man. While Swastika Night does explore this concept, I did however find the writing to be lacking in several ways. For one, the plot was dry and notVery 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.
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
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,
I really enjoyed this novel, I think it really says a lot about...a lot of things, i guess. Obviously this book says a lot about the patriarchy, as it was written by a woman and the back of the book describes the novel as a dystopia where men rule the world. But this novel also has a lot to say on the importance of history, of love, and of knowledge. I was surprised at the ending of the book, and didnt like it so much, which is why i only gave the book 4/5 stars, but really its more like a
Possibly the most troubling of the four dystopian books I have read this year, at least from a woman's point of view. Women are all but completely absent from the story, and from the society. It is set 720 years after the second world war. Germany won and Nazi's now rule all of Europe and Africa. The Japanese rule Asia and America (although they are only mentioned in passing in the story). The action happens in Germany and England (a subject nation). While Alfred (an English engineer) is
Along with Brave New World and We, Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night is often hailed a precursor to Orwell's earth-shattering work of dystopian fiction, 1984. While 1984 is probably a better story (for story's sake, with deeper, more well-rounded characters), it has one weakness; it is largely a justification of the idea that a society so twisted when compared with our own might survive. Burdekin's Swastika Night is not so much about the survival of a sick society (as arguments can be made
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