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... Kafka, “In the Penal Colony” How was it that lepers, so radically excluded from civil society, were retrained as model citizens in the colonial Philippines?’ In the first decade of the twentieth century, the United States’ colonial...

...- son’s nuanced untangling of the imagination of the modern citizen in an American-administered leper colony in the Philippines similarly reveals the arrogance of government in colonial peripheries as lepers on a barren island are trained...

... for the purpose of surveillance and bodily discipline, and not to publicly expose punishment as was so often the case up until the eighteenth century. 14 Among fifteen buildings within the prison, buildings 9 to 13, a camp for lepers, and the execution area were left for restoration. 15 The scale...

... as the new idiom is introduced. The nationalized body lies suspended between these two contradictory poles of protectionism and expansionism-each with its own form of colonialism: the leper or penal colony, on the one hand...

... is completely cut off. They are filthy and polluted, their family members are not happy to see them and they call them ‘lepers.’ What sins did they commit?” The Buddha answered, “Previously, when they were on earth...

... on a leper who talks about them inces- santly in order to draw attention to himself. Although physical degeneration and fascination with ailments are by no means the obsessions of Yu Dafu alone, this is one of the few instances in which one gets...

..., Takahashi writes, “five generations of lepers, and the disease will still not be stamped out.” Takahashi’s argument reverts to a strong affirmation of bloodline ideology, as seen in such comments as “Thus, if there is marriage into a family line where...