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Themes


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• 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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Pain and the body


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Pain and the body


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Pain and the body


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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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-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




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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




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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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