Mrazek Rudolf Mrazek

Complete Lives of Camp People (eBook, PDF)

Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf Mrazek 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. Mrazek focuses on the minutiae of daily life in two camps: Theresienstadt, a Nazi "e;ghetto"e; for Jews near Prague, and the Dutch "e;isolation camp"e; 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, Mrazek 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, Mrazek demonstrates that concentration camps are not exceptional spaces; they are the locus of modernity in its most distilled form.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478007364
• Artikelnr.: 66282580

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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