The penal colonies: from utopia to potential case dismissal by Marc Renneville

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Transcendence of the Human Far Beyond AI—Kafka’s <i>In the Penal Colony</i> and Schopenhauerian Eschatology by Søren Robert Fauth

“…Through a close reading of the narrative <i>In the Penal Colony</i>, it is demonstrated that this yearning is far more radical and uncompromising than the modern vision of extending and optimizing human life. …”
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Les bagnes coloniaux : de l’utopie au risque du non-lieu by Marc Renneville

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Bagnards, orpailleurs et fonctionnaires du bassin du Maroni dans la Grande guerre by Virginie Brunelot, Arnauld Heuret

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Les aspirations à l’assimilation à l’épreuve de la présence du bagne dans la colonie de la Guyane française (1879-1938) by Boris Lama

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Une vie en trompe-l’œil : l’artiste bagnard Francis Lagrange (1901-1964) by Émile Blanc, David Carita, Denis Lamaison

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Le traitement du bagne colonial de Guyane par le magazine Détective by Jean-Lucien Sanchez

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Ceux qui sont restés : les anciens forçats en Guyane après l’abolition du bagne by Jean-Lucien Sanchez

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Alexandre Jacob, forçat anarchiste en Guyane : politique ou droit commun ? by Colombe de Dieuleveult

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Exil pénal et circulations forcées dans l’Empire colonial français by Linda Amiri

“…The purpose of this article is to revisit the political and social context of the Algerian period in the French Guiana penal colony (1867-1887), to record these as part of the geography of «trans-imperial» forced transports, tracing the contours of the first generation of Algerian convicts. …”
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Un cas exemplaire de prophylaxie de la délinquance juvénile : le traitement médico-pédagogique de l’enfant subnormal placé à l’École de préservation Théophile Roussel de Montesson... by Dominique Messineo

“…Succeeding to an agricultural penal colony, the new preservation house-Théophile Roussel presents itself as a model institution highlighting implements such as a mental orthopedic program (strict hygiene, ambitious professional education program, careful selection of residents judged on the basis of their psychological characteristics as being the most reformable) in order to prevent the dangers of juvenile crime. …”
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Framing Colonial Australia: A Socio-historical Articulation of the Display of Art by Anita Gowers

“…In this context, the cultivation of the arts was seen as a means of rehabilitation, moving the nomenclature away from “penal colony” to the more desirable descriptor “free society”. …”
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