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Aleutian sparrow
An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to \"protect\" the population from the invading Japanese.
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Here in our Auschwitz and other stories
The most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz, with a foreword by Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny In 1943, the twenty-year-old Polish poet Tadeusz Borowski was arrested and deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. What he experienced in the camp left him convinced that no one who survived Auschwitz was innocent. All were complicit; the camp regime depended on this. Borowski's tales present the horrors of the camp as reflections of basic human nature and impulse, stripped of the artificial boundaries of culture and custom. Inside the camp, the strongest of the prisoners form uneasy alliances with their captors and one another, watching unflinchingly as the weak scrabble and struggle against their inevitable fate. In the last analysis, suffering is never ennobling and goodness is tantamount to suicide. Bringing together for the first time in English Borowski's major writings and many previously uncollected works, this is the most complete collection of stories in a new, authoritative translation, with a substantial foreword by Timothy Snyder that speaks to its enduring relevance.
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The lost history of stars : a novel
In this novel, \"fourteen-year-old Lettie and her family are Afrikaners, Dutch settlers in turn-of-the-century southern Africa. When the British Empire wages a brief but brutal two-year war against them, Afrikaner forces will lose thirty-five hundred soldiers, but the toll on Dutch women and children will be eight times greater. Now a footnote, this period in history bears one particularly abhorrent distinction: the use of concentration camps three decades before Hitler\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Great Wall of Confinement
China is the only major world power to have entered the twenty-first century with a thriving prison camp network—a frightening, mostly hidden realm known since 1951 as the laogai system. This book, the most comprehensive study of China's prison camps to date, draws from a wide range of primary sources, including many compelling literary documents, to illuminate life inside China's prison camps. Focusing mainly on the second half of the twentieth century, Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu outline the evolution of the laogai system, construct a vivid picture of prisoners' lives from arrest and interrogation to release, and provide a troubling new perspective on the human rights issues plaguing China.
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American heart
Imagine a United States in which registries and detainment camps for Muslim Americans are a reality. This is the world of fifteen-year-old Sarah-Mary Williams of Hannibal, Missouri. Sarah-Mary, who has strong opinions on almost everything, isn't concerned with the internments, as she doesn't know any Muslims. She assumes that everything she reads and sees in the news is true, and that these plans are intended for everyone's safety. Then she meets Sadaf, a fugitive escaping to Canada. Should she turn her in--or help her?
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Thanatopolitics and the Constant Smallness of Being: Necropower and Bare Life in Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin
Foucault and Agamben cogently argue that modern democracies continue to perpetuate violence and systematise the exclusion of the marginalised beings through entrenched ulterior motives and power dynamics, generally seen through thanatopolitics. Thanatopolitics, a term commonly used to refer to the exercise of power, determines whose lives are preserved and whose are rendered disposable. Such perpetuation of dehumanisation can often be seen in contemporary fiction. By taking Palestinian fiction, Mornings in Jenin, as an example, this paper examines the interplay between necropower, biopower, surveillance, and the state of exception in shaping the politics of the body. Specifically, this paper examines how the body becomes a central site of control, resistance, memory, and erasure under conditions of prolonged occupation and militarised governance. Through a close reading concerning strategies of disempowerment, stories about concentration camps, refugees, and above all, the living dead are first presented. Secondly, this paper analyses the lived experiences of Palestinians grappling with the unending, wide-range violence, evoking minutiae of harsh realities under emergency through the description of Palestinians' wounded and mutilated bodies. Finally, this paper discloses the many ways in which the Palestinian struggle against dispossession and displacement is humanised, sparking meaningful conversations about the Palestinian culture of resistance against de(atrophy), a sense of decay, a loss of function, or a reduction of the significance of the Palestinian people. By centralising the body within necthanatopolitical discourses, this paper offers a stark contrast against available postcolonial inquiries, presenting new insights into literary strategies deployed to reclaim agency amidst systemic death-worlds.
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The hunger angel : a novel
January 1945, the war is not yet over : the Soviets begin the deportation of the German minority from the labor camps in Ukraine. This is the story of seventeen year old Leo Auberge, who went to the camp with the naive unawareness of the boy eager to escape provincial life. The last five years however he experienced daily hunger and cold, extreme fatigue and death.
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Publishing the Holocaust: An Inside View from the Editorial Trenches
Over the course of an 18-year tenure as the Editor-in-Chief of The Jewish Publication Society, the author encountered numerous ethical dilemmas relating to publishing Holocaust manuscripts. These dilemmas concerned a book's provenance, authorship, distribution of royalties, authenticity, and appropriateness. In the article, the author presents several case studies of various Holocaust manuscripts and their disposition, describing the processes of vetting and debate pertaining to each problematic acquisition.
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Mischling : a novel
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive.
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Slanting the Holocaust in the Fairy Tale Form: Jean-Claude Grumberg’s The Most Precious of Cargoes
This article analyzes Jean-Claude Grumberg’s 2019 Holocaust fairy tale, The Most Precious of Cargoes, translated from French. This fairy tale adds to Grumberg’s oeuvre of Holocaust fiction, including plays and children’s stories. His fairy tale may be his most personal attempt to process his own Holocaust experience, as he includes an appendix with facts about his father and grandfather who died in Auschwitz. Specifically, the fairy tale is approached through an analysis of the fairy tale genre’s pairing with the subject of the Holocaust. The article also examines possible readings of such a pairing through a close reading of the tale that analyzes the role of good vs. evil. Published interviews with Grumberg, theory on the fairy tale, and other Holocaust fairy tales establish a view that The Most Precious of Cargoes is unique in Holocaust fiction.
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