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Themes
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Themes
• Civilization vs. Barbarism,deconstruction of this opposition
• Allegory and its limitations/dangers
• Complicity in violence
• Gender and desire
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Pain and the body
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Themes
• Civilization vs. Barbarism,deconstruction of this opposition
• Allegory and its limitations/dangers
• Complicity in violence
• Gender and desire
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Pain and the body
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Themes
• Civilization vs. Barbarism,deconstruction of this opposition
• Allegory and its limitations/dangers
• Complicity in violence
• Gender and desire
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Pain and the body
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Themes
• Civilization vs. Barbarism,deconstruction of this opposition
• Allegory and its limitations/dangers
• Complicity in violence
• Gender and desire
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Pain and the body
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Themes
• Civilization vs. Barbarism,deconstruction of this opposition
• Allegory and its limitations/dangers
• Complicity in violence
• Gender and desire
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Pain and the body
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Themes
• Civilization vs. Barbarism,deconstruction of this opposition
• Allegory and its limitations/dangers
• Complicity in violence
• Gender and desire
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Pain and the body• The lins bet!een narrative and
violence "legitimation#
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$mpire and its violence
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%etting
• &the gossip that reaches us long out of datefrom the capital' (
• &. . . !hat !as once an outpost and then a fort
on the frontier has gro!n into an agriculturalsettlement, a to!n of three thousand souls in!hich the noise of life . . . does not cease' )
• &Those maps are based on little but
hearsay . . . * have patched them together fromtravellers+ accounts over a period of ten ort!enty years. * have never set foot myself!here you plan to go.' (
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%etting
• &the gossip that reaches us long out of datefrom the capital' (
• &. . . !hat !as once an outpost and then a fort
on the frontier has gro!n into an agriculturalsettlement, a to!n of three thousand souls in!hich the noise of life . . . does not cease' )
• &Those maps are based on little but
hearsay . . . * have patched them together fromtravellers+ accounts over a period of ten ort!enty years. * have never set foot myself!here you plan to go.' (
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%etting
• &the gossip that reaches us long out of datefrom the capital' (
• &. . . !hat !as once an outpost and then a fort
on the frontier has gro!n into an agriculturalsettlement, a to!n of three thousand souls in!hich the noise of life . . . does not cease' )
• &Those maps are based on little but
hearsay . . . * have patched them together fromtravellers+ accounts over a period of ten ort!enty years. * have never set foot myself!here you plan to go.' (
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%etting
• &the gossip that reaches us long out of datefrom the capital' (
• &. . . !hat !as once an outpost and then a fort
on the frontier has gro!n into an agriculturalsettlement, a to!n of three thousand souls in!hich the noise of life . . . does not cease' )
• &Those maps are based on little but
hearsay . . . * have patched them together fromtravellers+ accounts over a period of ten ort!enty years. * have never set foot myself!here you plan to go.' (
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-pening
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The agistrate
• &* have not seen the capital since *!as a young man'.(
• &* have impressed it on the sta thathe is an important visitor. . . . 012emust mae a good impression onhim.+'(
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The agistrate
• &* have not seen the capital since *!as a young man'.(
• &* have impressed it on the sta thathe is an important visitor. . . . 012emust mae a good impression onhim.+'(
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The agistrate
• &* have not seen the capital since *!as a young man'.(
• &* have impressed it on the sta thathe is an important visitor. . . . 012emust mae a good impression onhim.+'(
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The agistrate
• &They say they had nothing to do !ith theraid. * do not no!. Perhaps they aretelling the truth'. & 0. . . !e no! nothing
about thieving. The soldiers stopped usand tied us up. 3or nothing. 2e !ere onthe road, coming here to see the doctor. This is my sister+s boy. 4e has a sore that
does not get better. 2e are not thieves+' 5• &* gro! conscious that * am pleading for
them'. 6
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The agistrate
• &They say they had nothing to do !ith theraid. * do not no!. Perhaps they aretelling the truth'. & 0. . . !e no! nothing
about thieving. The soldiers stopped usand tied us up. 3or nothing. 2e !ere onthe road, coming here to see the doctor. This is my sister+s boy. 4e has a sore that
does not get better. 2e are not thieves+' 5• &* gro! conscious that * am pleading for
them'. 6
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7oll
• &0There is a certain tone+, 7oll says.' )
• &2e have set procedures to gothrough'. 6
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7oll
• &0There is a certain tone+, 7oll says.' )
• &2e have set procedures to gothrough'. 6
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7oll
• &0There is a certain tone+, 7oll says.' )
• &2e have set procedures to gothrough'. 6
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Tortured body "p.8#
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Civilization
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Civilization
• 9 & 01 if you get lost it becomes ourtas here to :nd you and bring youbac to civilization.' 2e pause,
savouring from our dierent positionsthe ironies of the !ord'. (
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Complicity
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Complicity
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Complicity
• &* feel my heart gro! heavy. * never!ished to be dra!n into this. 2here it!ill end * do not no! . .'. 8
• &Throughout a trying period he and *have managed to behave to!ards eachother lie civilized people. All my life *
have believed in civilized behaviour; onthis occasion, ho!ever, . . . thememory leaves me sic !ith myself' (5
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Complicity
• &* feel my heart gro! heavy. * never!ished to be dra!n into this. 2here it!ill end * do not no! . .'. 8
• &Throughout a trying period he and *have managed to behave to!ards eachother lie civilized people. All my life *
have believed in civilized behaviour; onthis occasion, ho!ever, . . . thememory leaves me sic !ith myself' (5
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Complicity
• &"-n the other hand, !ho am * toassert my distance from him . .. The $mpire does not re?uire that its
servants love each other, merely thatthey perform their duty.')@
• ll my gestures in relation to this boy
are a!!ard' 8
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Complicity
• &"-n the other hand, !ho am * toassert my distance from him . .. The $mpire does not re?uire that its
servants love each other, merely thatthey perform their duty.')@
• &All my gestures in relation to this
boy are a!!ard' 8
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Complicity
• &But alas, . . . for a !hile * stoppedmy hears to the noises coming fromthe hut . . . then in the night * too a
lantern and !ent to see for myself.'
• &*t has not escaped me that an
interrogator can !ear t!o mass, . . .one harsh, one seductive' 8
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Complicity
• &But alas, . . . for a !hile * stoppedmy hears to the noises coming fromthe hut . . . then in the night * too a
lantern and !ent to see for myself.'
• &*t has not escaped me that an
interrogator can !ear t!o mass, . . .one harsh, one seductive' 8
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Complicity
&1* might cease to feel lie a man !ho . . .gives up the :ght, stops s!imming, and turnshis face to!ards the open sea and death. But itis the no!ledge of ho! contingent my uneaseis, ho! dependent on a baby that !ailsbeneath my !indo! one day and does not !ail
the net, that brings the !orst shame to me,the greatest indierence to annihilation. * no!some!hat too much; and from this no!ledge,once one has been infected, there seems to beno recovering'.(D@
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Complicity
• &* struggle on . . . hoping that beforeit is :nished it !ill reveal to me !hyit !as that * thought it !orth the
trouble' (6
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Complicity and narration
• &"At a certain point * begin to pleadmy o!n cause.#' )
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Complicity and narration
&"At a certain point * begin to plead myo!n cause.#' )
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