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Titel:The Complete Lives of Camp People
Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity
Von: Rudolf Mrázek
Person: Mrázek, Rudolf
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Hauptverfasser: Mrázek, Rudolf (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:Theory in Forms
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Online-Zugang:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007364
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007364
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007364
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007364
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007364
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007364
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007364
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007364
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007364
Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (496 pages) 6 illustrations
ISBN:9781478007364
DOI:10.1515/9781478007364