The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar
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2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3242-7 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3242-7 (ISBN)
Robert Desjarlais explores the life and death of Abdelkader Bennahar, an Algerian man who died on the outskirts of Paris in October 1961, in order to show how French colonial state and police violence shaped the lives and deaths of Algerians.
On the night of October 17, 1961, thousands of Algerians peacefully demonstrated in the streets of Paris, protesting an illegal curfew imposed upon them by the French colonial government. The Paris police responded with deadly violence, by some accounts killing over two hundred people and wounding countless others. One of their victims was Abdelkader Bennahar, who was seriously beaten in Nanterre, a commune just west of Paris. Jewish-French photographer Élie Kagan took a number of photographs of Bennahar as he lay bleeding in the street. Bennahar was brought to a Nanterre hospital and reportedly died the next night. In The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar, Robert Desjarlais analyzes Kagan’s photographs and their affective force and political significance from the moment they first circulated through the decades that followed. By drawing on Kagan’s photographs and archival records to consider the trace remnants of Bennahar’s life and the fate of his body in death, Desjarlais offers a compelling account of one person’s “life death” through complicated strands of time and memory.
On the night of October 17, 1961, thousands of Algerians peacefully demonstrated in the streets of Paris, protesting an illegal curfew imposed upon them by the French colonial government. The Paris police responded with deadly violence, by some accounts killing over two hundred people and wounding countless others. One of their victims was Abdelkader Bennahar, who was seriously beaten in Nanterre, a commune just west of Paris. Jewish-French photographer Élie Kagan took a number of photographs of Bennahar as he lay bleeding in the street. Bennahar was brought to a Nanterre hospital and reportedly died the next night. In The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar, Robert Desjarlais analyzes Kagan’s photographs and their affective force and political significance from the moment they first circulated through the decades that followed. By drawing on Kagan’s photographs and archival records to consider the trace remnants of Bennahar’s life and the fate of his body in death, Desjarlais offers a compelling account of one person’s “life death” through complicated strands of time and memory.
Robert Desjarlais is Professor of Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College, author of The Blind Man: A Phantasmography, and coauthor of Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France.
Introduction 1
1. Wound Images 23
2. A Sporadic History of Images 77
3. Intersecting Lives 127
4. The Afterlife of a Death 179
5. Tracework 213
6. The Spectrality of Remnants 259
Acknowledgments 275
Notes 279
References 301
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Theory in Forms |
| Zusatzinfo | 55 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-3242-1 / 1478032421 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-3242-7 / 9781478032427 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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