The Opposite of the Concentration Camp: Nancy's Vision of Community

Such an endeavor is crucial, given that the frameworks that dominate literary criticism devoted to community are generally restricted and reduced by a traditional and largely unrecognized formulation of the individual as a point of departure. Highlighting such an observation is important for it is here, in the context of the individual, that "we" have been and remain (Nancy 1991, 11-12).2 Furthermore, it is a crucial point insofar as it would seem that if pressed, we all know, have some kind of an understanding (however unformulated it may be), that being exists in relation in a complex, important, even fundamental way; there is sense that the detached being-side-by-side of the individual is simply inadequate to the connections of being (or that are being). ANA M. LUSZCZYNSKA is Assistant Professor of English at Florida International University in Miami and teaches courses in literary theory, African-American literature, and U.S. Latino literature.