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An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropology In thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, social, or biological death? Only somebody can become a "nobody," but, as Daniel Heller-Roazen shows, the ways of being a nonperson are as diverse and complex as they are mysterious and unpredictable. Heller-Roazen treats the variously missing persons of the subtitle in three parts: Vanishings, Lessenings, and Survivals. In each section and with multiple transhistorical and transcultural examples, he challenges the categories that define nonpersons in philosophy, ethics, law, and anthropology. Exclusion, infamy, and stigma; mortuary beliefs and customs; children's games and state censuses; ghosts and "dead souls" illustrate the lives of those lacking or denied full personhood. In the archives of fiction, Heller-Roazen uncovers figurations of the missing--from Helen of Argos in Troy or Egypt to Hawthorne's Wakefield, Swift's Captain Gulliver, Kafka's undead hunter Gracchus, and Chamisso's long-lived shadowless Peter Schlemihl. Readers of The Enemy of All and No One's Ways will find a continuation of those books' intense intellectual adventures, with unexpected questions and arguments arising every step of the way. In a unique voice, Heller-Roazen's thought and writing capture the intricacies of the all-too-human absent and absented.
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One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", Alicia Partnoy (b. 1955) was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Smuggled out and published anonymously, this work is Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment. In 1979, she was forced to leave the country and moved to the U.S. where she was reunited with her daughter and her husband. Her story induced the world to open its eyes to the treatment of women in reference to the disappearances of Latin Americans.
Disappeared persons --- Disappeared persons. --- Political prisoners --- Political prisoners. --- Argentina.
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"It was from Argentina, in the years 1976 to1983, that the world first heard the cries of the families of los desaparecidos, the disappeared.The scope and range of governmentally sanctioned kidnappings has spread, making enforced disappearances a truly global problem. This volume provides an in-depth legal investigation of involuntary disappearances as defined by national and international law"--Provided by publisher.
Disappeared persons --- Disappeared persons --- Human rights --- Legal status, laws, etc
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Disappeared persons --- Memory in motion pictures --- Argentina
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Disappeared persons --- Drug control --- Violence --- History
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Peace-building --- Disappeared persons --- Political stability --- Colombia.
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Peace-building --- Disappeared persons --- Political stability