“They wanted to forget that there ever had been, in Europe, any other civilization at all. There was so much beauty they had not made, so many books they had not written, so many records of wars in which they had not fought, and so many ideas of human behavior which were anathema to them.” Katharine Burdekin, Swastika Night
Set in a stagnant male-dominated Fascist Empire seven hundred years into a dystopian future, Burdekin’s Swastika Night offers many insights into our world today. Women have undergone the Reduction and no longer live with men, they are mere soulless breeding stock kept in caged complexes.
Is a dystopian vision of a post-Enlightenment, post-history, anti-science, anti-reason, feudal world relevant to today and to what we see happening around us? Join Alakananda Ma as she shares the insights she has gleaned from ‘the greatest novel I had never heard of.’
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