Law undone: corporeal subversion in Mariella Mehr’s Stoneage

dc.contributor.authorPatchett, Emma
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-12T11:25:42Z
dc.date.available2017-07-27T13:57:35Z
dc.date.available2022-09-12T11:25:42Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractAt a time in which the corporeality of excluded subjects is prominent in socio-political discourse, this article proposes a critical interdisciplinary reading of the way in which the juridical positioning of the corporeal is designed to obscure the threatening ruptures in the originary body of the law. The sedentarizing anti-nomadic program of removing children and incarcerating them as wards of the state in Switzerland between 1926 and1972 demonstrates a systematic juridical authorization of the attempt to disrupt and excise the diseased and degenerate body of the Yenish from the ordered body of the pure state. Through a close analysis of Mariella Mehr s novel Stoneage (1990 [1981]), read through a theoretical framework informed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari s work on the Body without Organs, Giorgio Agamben s reading of Primo Levi s Muselmann, and vulnerability theory, this article aims to lay bare the ways in which law is implicated in the process of negating corporeal disorder in the context of a eugenic program conducted against the unlawful body.en
dc.identifier.issn2366-4142
dc.identifier.urihttp://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-129989
dc.identifier.urihttps://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de//handle/jlupub/7629
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-7063
dc.language.isoende_DE
dc.rightsNamensnennung 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectbody without organsde_DE
dc.subjectcorporealityde_DE
dc.subjecteugenicsde_DE
dc.subjectlawde_DE
dc.subjectnomadismde_DE
dc.subject.ddcddc:300de_DE
dc.titleLaw undone: corporeal subversion in Mariella Mehr’s Stoneageen
dc.typearticlede_DE
dcterms.isPartOf2856008-5de_DE
local.affiliationGCSC International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culturede_DE
local.opus.fachgebietGießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaftende_DE
local.opus.id12998
local.opus.instituteInternational Graduate Centre for the Study of Culturede_DE
local.source.journaltitleOn_culture: the open journal for the study of culture
local.source.volume3

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