The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity - Couverture rigide

Mrázek, Rudolf

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1478005777 ISBN 13 : 9781478005773

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2020

Synopsis

In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf Mrázek 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. Mrázek 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, Mrázek 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, Mrázek demonstrates that concentration camps are not exceptional spaces; they are the locus of modernity in its most distilled form.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rudolf Mrázek is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the author of several books, including A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of its Intellectuals, also published by Duke University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478005777
• ISBN 13: 9781478005773
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 496
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