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- Sari Edelstein, The Sentimentality of Evil.
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- Sari Edelstein, The Sentimentality of Evil.
how the institution of the family confers a mirage of humanity and morality onto its participants.
- Sari Edelstein, The Sentimentality of Evil.
- Sari Edelstein, The Sentimentality of Evil.
“Lebensraum,” which refers to the German idea of “living space,” is a colonial concept akin to manifest destiny that was adapted to serve Nazism’s genocidal vision. The notion of Lebensraum links family comfort with genocide and settler colonialism, but it also euphemizes those connections and naturalizes the state’s insidious agenda through the practice of domesticity.
- Sari Edelstein, The Sentimentality of Evil.
- Sari Edelstein, The Sentimentality of Evil.
- Sari Edelstein, The Sentimentality of Evil.
The garden scenes in particular conjure the plantations, or labor camps, of the antebellum South, another period in which the family home was interwoven with state-sanctioned racially-specific violence and abuse. Just as the Hoss family home life operates in conjunction with the activities of Auschwitz, so too were plantations “total institutions” that encompassed all aspects of life for those that lived within them. Enslaved people toiled under duress in fields and in homes alongside white leisure and domestic ritual.
- Sari Edelstein, The Sentimentality of Evil.