CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Puric, Biljana |
|---|---|
| Title | Gender, the Camp and teh Muselmann |
| Summary | This work addresses the relation between the camp, the inmate and the Muselmann. I use and refer to the camp in Agamben’s terms, as a biopolitical space or as a paradigm of the modern political structure. Gender and the figure of the Muselmann are used in order to challenge Agamben’s theory and to analyse how and if the structure of the camp changes if we introduce these variables in it. I first focus on the distinctions created between the Muselmann and other inmates in the discourses on exceptionality of the Holocaust in order to show how these discourses exclude ‘gendered’ inmate from the structure of the camp. Through inclusion of the inmate who is not the Muselmann I then examine if the paradigm of the camp as a space of exception can be changed through this inclusion. The final part focuses on gender and gender relations inside the camp. I juxtapose the Muselmann conceptualized as genderless person to other inmates and analyse what implications the presence of gender may have on the concept of the camp. |
| Supervisor | Peto, Andrea; Loutfi, Anna |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/puric_biljana.pdf |
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