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The Complete Lives of Camp People – Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity: Theory in Forms

Autor Rudolf Mrázek
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 ian 2020
In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf Mr zek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of twentieth-century concentration camp internees and the multiple ways in which their experiences speak to the fundamental logics of modernity. Mr zek focuses on the minutiae of daily life in two camps: Theresienstadt, a Nazi "ghetto" for Jews near Prague, and the Dutch "isolation camp" Boven Digoel--which was located in a remote part of New Guinea between 1927 and 1943 and held Indonesian rebels who attempted to overthrow the colonial government. Drawing on a mix of interviews with survivors and their descendants, archival accounts, ephemera, and media representations, Mr zek shows how modern life's most mundane tasks--buying clothes, getting haircuts, playing sports--continued on in the camps, which were themselves designed, built, and managed in accordance with modernity's tenets. In this way, Mr zek demonstrates that concentration camps are not exceptional spaces; they are the locus of modernity in its most distilled form.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478006671
ISBN-10: 1478006676
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 6 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 153 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
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Cuprins

Introduction 1
Part I. Fashion
1. Clothes 11
2. Beauty Spots 27
3. Pink Bodies 43
4. Sport 72
Part II. Sound
5. Noise 83
6. Voice 91
7. Music 104
8. Radio 119
Part III. Light
9. Clearing 143
10. Enlightenment 169
11. Limelight 189
Part IV. City
12. Blocks 211
13. Streets 239
14. Suburbs 265
Part V. Scattering
15. Nausea 297
16. Escape 319
17. Dust, or Memory 349
Notes 379
Bibliography 451
Index

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Descriere

Rudolf Mrazek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of internees of two twentieth-century concentration camps and the multiple ways in which their experiences speak to and reveal the fundamental logics of modernity.