Camp : narratives of internment and exclusion / Edited by Colman Hogan and Marta Marin Domine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hogan, Colman, editor.

Marin, Marta, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social isolation.

Marginality, Social.

Internment camps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2007]

Summary:

The camp is nothing if not diverse: in kind, scope, and particularity; in sociological and juridical configuration; in texture, iconography, and political import. Adjectives of camp specificity embrace a spectrum from extermination and concentration, to detention, migration, deportation, and refugee camps. And while the geographic range covered by contributors is hardly global, it is broad: Chile, Rwanda, Canada, the US, Central Europe, Morocco, Algeria, South Africa, France and Spain. And yet--is to so characterize the camp to run the risk of diffusing what in origin is a concentration into a paratactical series of "identity particularisms"? While The Camp does not seek to antithetically promulgate a universalist vision, it does aim to explore the imbrication of the particular and the universal, to analyze the structure of a camp or camps, and to call attention the role of the listener in the construction of the testimony. For, by naming what cannot be said, is not every narrative of internment and exclusion a potential site of agency, articulating the inner splitting of language that Giorgio Agamben defines as the locus of testimony: "to bear witness is to place oneself in one's own language in the position of those who have lost it, to establish oneself in a living language as if it were dead, or in a dead language as if it were living.".

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

I: Theorizing Contemporary Internment and Exclusion

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

II: Internment as Prevention: Protecting the Good Citizen

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

III: Racial Segregation and its Literary representation

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

IV: Punishing Dissent

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

V: The Shoah and Contemporaneity

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

VI: Present and Past

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Postface In Memoriam Praesente

Contributors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-6551-3

OCLC:

1239992102