Space, Body, Trauma: Ruth Klüger and the Concentration Camp
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We intend to investigate the presence of bodily figurations in Ruth Klüger’s Still alive, a late testimony of a Holocaust survivor. From the perspective of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and Agamben’s biopolitical reflections, we try to link bodily experiences with other traditional themes of Shoah studies, such as trauma. We also reveal particular features of this text, such as the pornographic body and the monotone body. In doing so, we hope to show, primarily, how concentration camps affect our bodily structure.
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