Rebecca West on Emily Davison's action in jumping under the King's horse for women's rights,
joined in the tributes:
‘To the end sunlight was on her face. I was glad that for an executioner she had an unmalicious brute.’
Davison was positioning herself in what Giorgio Agamben calls a ‘zone of indistinction’, an interstice, in order to demarcate a new space for women as citizens. Both the broom cupboard and the race track are non-places.
footage can be seen on YouTube
source: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n13/marina-warner/death-in-plain-sight
joined in the tributes:
‘To the end sunlight was on her face. I was glad that for an executioner she had an unmalicious brute.’
Davison was positioning herself in what Giorgio Agamben calls a ‘zone of indistinction’, an interstice, in order to demarcate a new space for women as citizens. Both the broom cupboard and the race track are non-places.
footage can be seen on YouTube
source: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n13/marina-warner/death-in-plain-sight
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