Swastika Night
| Title | Swastika Night |
| Year for Search | 1937 |
| Authors | [Burdekin], [Katharine Penelope Cade](1896-1963) |
| Tertiary Authors | Constantine, Murray [pseud.] |
| Date Published | 1937 |
| Publisher | Victor Gollancz |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Female author |
| Annotation | Dystopia where there has been five hundred years of Nazi rule, and the Nazi creed has become transmuted into a religion which directly supports the current power structure of the future Germany. There is still a single Führer who rules with the blessing of Hitler and God the Thunderer over a clearly defined hierarchy that is nationalist, racist, sexist, with love only between men and women kept separate and only for breeding, and anti-Christian. Much of the book is about one of the German Knights who knows the truth of the past and works to preserve that knowledge the future. Female author. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in the Left Book Club Edition. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940; and by Burdekin writing as Murray Constantine. London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michael Dirda (1-4); and under the author's real name Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1985 with an “Introduction” iii-xv) by Daphne Patai; and London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michel Dirda (1-4). |
| Pseudonym | Murray Constantine [pseud.] |
| Holding Institutions | L, PSt |
| Author Note | Female author (1896-1963) |
| Full Text | 1937 [Burdekin, Katharine Penelope Cade] (1896-1963). Swastika Night. By Murray Constantine [pseud.]. London: Victor Gollancz. Rpt. in the Left Book Club Edition. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940; and by Burdekin writing as Murray Constantine. London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michael Dirda (1-4); and under the author’s real name Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1985 with an “Introduction” iii-xv) by Daphne Patai; and London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michel Dirda (1-4). L, PSt Dystopia where there has been five hundred years of Nazi rule, and the Nazi creed has become transmuted into a religion which directly supports the current power structure of the future Germany. There is still a single Führer who rules with the blessing of Hitler and God the Thunderer over a clearly defined hierarchy that is nationalist, racist, sexist, with love only between men and women kept separate and only for breeding, and anti-Christian. Much of the book is about one of the German Knights who knows the truth of the past and works to preserve that knowledge the future. Female author. |
