Complete Lives of Camp People - Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity

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.

List of contents

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
 

About the author

Rudolf Mrázek

Summary

Rudolf Mrázek 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.

Product details

• Authors: Rudolf Mrazek, Rudolf Mrázek
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781478006671
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0667-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Theory in Forms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous