Arkadiusz Morawiec

Polish Literature and Genocide (eBook, PDF)

Übersetzer: Szuster-Tardi, Katarzyna

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Produktbeschreibung

Polish Literature and Genocide presents the attitude of national literature to the twentieth-century acts of genocide. This volume examines the reflection of the Holocaust and the massacre in Srebrenica in a rich, detailed, and comprehensive way, challenging former ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000534443
• Artikelnr.: 63077918

Autorenporträt

Arkadiusz Morawiec is a professor at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Lódz and a literary critic. His research interests primarily include the history of Polish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, in particular literary texts representing totalitarianism, genocide (including the Holocaust), concentration and extermination camps. His research also concerns literature as a medium of memory. He has published six books: Poetyka opowiadan Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzinskiego. Autentyzm -- dyskursywnosc -- parabolicznosc [The poetics of Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski's short stories: Authenticity -- discursiveness -- parables] (2000), Seweryna Szmaglewska (1916-1992). Bibliografia [Seweryna Szmaglewska (1916-1992): Bibliography] (2007), Literatura w lagrze, lager w literaturze. Fakt - temat - metafora [Literature in concentration camps, concentration camps in literature: Fact -- theme -- metaphor] (2009), Polityczne, prywatne, metafizyczne. Szkice o literaturze polskiej ostatnich dziesiecioleci [The political, the private, and the metaphysical: Essays on the Polish literature of the last decades] (2014), Zofia Romanowiczowa. Pisarka nie tylko emigracyjna [Zofia Romanowiczowa: More than an émigré writer] (2016), and Literatura polska wobec ludobójstwa [Polish literature on genocide] (2018). He has edited eleven monographs, including: The Literature in/after Concentration and Death Camps (2017), Lager, lagier, obóz -- zapis. Obszary [Konzentrationslager, gulag, obóz -- records: Research areas] (2017), Lager, lagier, obóz -- zapis. Lektury [Konzentrationslager, gulag, obóz -- records: Texts] (2018), and Zaglada wobec innych ludobójstw [Holocaust in the face of other genocides] (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures

Introduction: The Holocausts

Prologue: Echoes of the Armenian Genocide

1 "Disinfection": The Extermination of the Mentally Ill

2 Wladyslaw Szlengel (in the Warsaw Ghetto)

3 The Locomotive (to Belzec)

4 The Death Brigade (Leon Weliczker's)

5 Not Only Asfitz: The Destruction of the Gypsies

6 "History Rounds Off Skeletons to the Nearest Zero": The Extermination of the Soviet Prisoners of War

7 "Professor Spanner" by Zofia Nalkowska and "Soap from Human Fat"

8 Tadeusz Rózewicz's Excursion to the Museum (and Library)

Epilogue: "It Repeats Itself Before Our Eyes" -- Srebrenica



Bibliography

Index of Names