Erin G. Carlston

Erin G. Carlston is a New Zealand academic, as of 2019 a full professor of English at the University of Auckland. Quotes For conservative and nationalist discourses, these marginalized Others were frequently objects of fascination and revulsion. Yet the horror provoked by Jews, homosexuals, and, in some areas, Gypsies cannot be explained simply by reference to the marginal; it was the way those at the margins of society made the bordelines of gender and nationality blur and shift that threatened to tear apart the very fabric of the patriarchal nation-state as it had been constituted. This threat was perhaps especially acute in Germany, whose identity as a unified nation was so tenuous. About fascism, Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity 1998 Stanford University Press 978-0-8047-4167-5 19 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ffhk6mjZj-oC&pg=PA19 Conservatives and fascist ideologies adapted the notion that Jews were alien to the national community to a cultural critique that attributed the inauthenticity of contemporary mass culture to Jewish influence. Jews, not having a fixed location, could not share in cultures rooted in the community of blood or soil and were therefore reduced to the imitation of other cultures, to artifice. Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity 1998 Stanford University Press 978-0-8047-4167-5 23 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ffhk6mjZj-oC&pg=PA23 For many liberal centrists of the 1930s fascism seemed not so much intrinsically wrong as wrong-headed, offering solutions that were at once too extreme and inadequate to address the crises of modernity. Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity 1998 Stanford University Press 978-0-8047-4167-5 115 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ffhk6mjZj-oC&pg=PA115 External links Category:Living people Category:1962 births Category:Women academics from New Zealand Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Educators from New Zealand Category:Educators from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from New Zealand Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women authors from New Zealand Category:Harvard University alumni