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Pained screams from camps: collected essays and an Italian-English edition of Aldo Quarisa's diary
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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Reid, Aisling (HerausgeberIn), Surace, Valentina (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Italienisch
Veröffentlicht: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Oldenbourg [2024]
Schlagwörter:
Konzentrationslager Auschwitz
Geschichte
Erfahrung
Internierungslager
Leid
Zweiter Weltkrieg
Conditio humana
Europa
Periode des Zweiten Weltkrieges (ca. 1938 bis ca. 1946)
c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Gewalt, Intoleranz und Verfolgung in der Geschichte
HIS027370
HISTORY / Europe / Ireland
HISTORY / Europe / Italy
HISTORY / Military / World War II
History: specific events & topics
Violence in society
Ireland
Irland
Italien
Italy
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Abstract:Detention camps exceed the juridical concept of punishment and crime. This book comprises two parts: 1. a collected volume that discusses camps not as something of the past, but as a paradigmatic political space in which ordinary law is completely suspended, and 2. an Italian-English parallel text of the war diary of an Italian prisoner during his confinement at the Stalag X-B internment camp near Sandbostel from 1943-1945. 1. The Human Condition of Exception: Collected Essays Edited by Aisling Reid and Valentina Surace Written in Italian and English, the essays collected in this volume explore the issue of camps and suffering from various perspectives, including philosophical inquiry, literary analysis, historical description and legal assessment. As Agamben suggests, the camp embodies the state of exception. A dehumanising camp life will therefore emerge every time such a structure is created.
What happens in camps exceeds the juridical concept of punishment, as well as that of crime. Prisoners are faced with a 'useless' pain (Levinas) as it is not the expiation of a fault. Prisoners attempt to describe their extreme suffering through their diaries. Their experience, however, cannot be entirely communicated. Even their screams, which express humanity at the extreme limit of its un-power, are silenced. Given the recent popularity of right-wing politics, as well as the centenary of Mussolini's march on Rome, such research is more urgent than ever. The book will appeal to readers with an interest in philosophy as well as Irish history scholars studying internment during Partition and The Troubles in Northern Ireland. 2. Aldo Quarisa's Diary: An Italian-English Edition Edited by Aisling Reid and Valentina Surace. Transcribed and with a preface by Galileo Sartor. Translation of the diary by Aisling Reid (Italian-English).
In 1943, Aldo Quarisa worked at a military school in Florence, where he taught literature. In October of that year, one month after Italy had surrendered to the Allied forces, the Italians declared war on the Germans. In Florence, the German occupiers responded quickly, by arresting and deporting people with military connections to numerous concentration camps in Austria. Quite suddenly, Aldo was detained and deported through a network of camps, including Benjaminovo and the Stalag X-B internment camp, near the German village of Sandbostel. For two years, he found himself imprisoned alongside other Italians, including the celebrated journalist Giovannino Guareschi, who secretly kept a diary that was later published as his Diario Clandestino 1943-1945 in 1946. Much like Guareschi, Aldo also kept a diary and excerpts are published here in both Italian and English for the first time.
Umfang:2 Bände
ISBN:9783111296203
3111296202

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