Erzwungene Komplizenschaft: Bruchstücke zu einer literarischen Ethnographie des Internats bei Tobias Wolff und Kazuo Ishiguro

'Taking up an ongoing discussion, in the field of the sociology of violence, which stresses the need for research on such forms of social coercion as are effected without physical violence, boarding schools are approached in a perspective of a criticism of power. Focusing on two novels and relying on Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, the paper aims to shed light on the relations of d…