Through a close analysis of Mariella Mehr’s novel Stoneage (1990 ), read through a theoretical framework informed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s work on the “Body without Organs,” Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Primo Levi’s “Muselmann,” and vulnerability theory, this article aims to lay bare the ways in which law is implicated in the process of negating corporeal disorder in the context of a eugenic program conducted against the ‘unlawful’ body. The sedentarizing anti-nomadic program of removing children and incarcerating them as wards of the state in Switzerland between 1926 and1972 demonstrates a systematic juridical authorization of the attempt to disrupt and excise the ‘diseased’ and ‘degenerate’ body of the Yenish from the ‘ordered’ body of the pure state. Realizing that the imprisonment of Burton would ruin the son and destroy his daughter's happiness, Webster destroys Burton's confession and returns to prison.At a time in which the corporeality of excluded subjects is prominent in socio-political discourse, this article proposes a critical interdisciplinary reading of the way in which the juridical positioning of the corporeal is designed to obscure the threatening ruptures in the originary body of the law. Webster breaks in on Burton and forces him into signing a confession stating that he framed Webster however, his victory is a hollow one, as he learns that his daughter plans to marry Ted Burton, the son of the elder Burton. Detective Doyle is determined to capture Webster and, learning that Li Fang knows his whereabouts, gives the Chinaman the third degree until he reveals his identity. She befriends the cripple, unaware of his identity, and the two play songs together, he on violin and the girl on piano. At a local mission, he meets his daughter, a young girl known as "The Angel Lady" because of her many kindly deeds and good works. In order to move about the city undetected, he disguises himself as a cripple, dragging himself about on a pair of crutches. He hides out with Li Fang, a Chinese politician and former friend of Webster's. David Webster escapes from prison after 15 years, having been framed by Fletcher Burton, a prominent businessman.
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