Media with photoinduced irreversible fluorescence

Traven, V. F.; Cheptsov, Dmitrii A.

doi:10.1515/hc-2015-0088

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“…This latter aspect is underscored by the remark that the crew are 'unzivilisiert' ('uncivilized') to the degree of being 'mit nichts vergleich[bar], was sich sonst auf Erden findet' ('comparable to nothing else found on earth'). 61 Constituting the only 'home' available to the protagonist and the rest of the crew, the Yorikke not only presents a system of brutishness in itself, but can also be read as the mirror image of an international state system whose cruelty, as Arendt notes, lies in its bureaucratization of the entire world, without any '"uncivilized" spot' 62 left to accommodate those who do not meet the administrative criteria of national belonging.…”

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Administering Exclusion: Statelessness, Identity Papers and Narrative Strategy in B. Traven’s Das Totenschiff (1926)

Mandelbaum

2021

Forum for Modern Language Studies

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Once an international best-seller but largely unknown today, B. Traven’s novel Das Totenschiff (The Death Ship) of 1926 presents a scathing critique of state bureaucracy and raises questions about the nature of authority, identity, home, and belonging in communal life. Reading the novel alongside relevant texts from political theory, I examine Traven’s text in the light of the history of bureaucracy and statelessness that surrounded and drove its production. Traven will be shown to provide a compelling critique of modern structures of communal organization, both on the level of content and in his multi-layered, non-linear style which runs counter to the more confined consecutive exposition of traditional forms, such as the biographical novel. By disrupting established ways of narrating the dynamics of individualization and belonging, Das Totenschiff reveals some of the complex elements of bureaucratically administered exclusion, as carried forth in objects such as the passport.

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