Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival: Camp Literature in a Transnational Perspective

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival

Camp Literature in a Transnational Perspective

Edited by: Anja Tippner and Anna Artwińska

Volume 14 in the series Culture & Conflict

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110631135

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About this book

The concept of “camp narratives” rather than “Holocaust narratives” or “Gulag narratives” is based on the assumption that literary accounts of camp experiences share common traits, aesthetically as well as thematically. The book presents readings of camp literature that underscore the similarities between texts about Soviet gulag camps, Nazi camps and about other camp experiences. While literature about Nazi concentration camps still serves as a point of reference for camp narratives in the same way that the Holocaust serves as a point of reference for other genocidal operations, socialist labor and penal camps have become transnational lieux de mémoire in their own right since 1989. This volume intends to provide a theoretical frame as well as an overview of several important European camp literatures and case studies of iconic camp narratives and to take a comparative and transnational perspective on the genre of the camp narrative.

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Anja Tippner, University of Hamburg, Germany; Anna Artwinska, University of Leipzig, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: Camp Narratives in a Comparative Transnational Perspective Anja Tippner and Anna Artwińska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I: Comparing Camp Narratives: Theoretical Approaches
Towards a Literary History of Concentration Camps: Comparative or “Entangled”? Leona Toker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Worlds Apart? Cross-mapping Camp Literature from the Gulag and Nazi Concentration Camps Anja Tippner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
II: Defining Camp Literatures: Overview
Transcultural Memorial Forms in Post-Soviet Estonian Narratives of the Gulag Eneken Laanes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Representations of the Gulag and Methods of Resistance: Romanian Detention Memoirs Ruxandra Cesereanu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Polish Literature of Soviet Prison Camps: An Outline of Issues Tadeusz Sucharski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Between the Sun and the Stone – The Naked Body: Yugoslav “Re-education” Camps in Literary Representations Davor Beganović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Presence through Absence: The Aesthetics of Blank Space in French Holocaust Literature and Film Anne-Berenike Rothstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Konzentrationslager in Polish Literature: From Metaphorization to Metaphor Arkadiusz Morawiec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
III: Witnessing and Remembering Camp Experiences: Comparative Case Studies
The Grey Zones of Witnessing: Levi, Améry, Shalamov Silke Segler-Messner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
The Ghetto of Leningrad, the Siege of Theresienstadt: A Comparative Reading of Enforced Communities Irina Sandomirskaja Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Uncanny Contingencies: Translation, Comparison, and Compassion in Herta Müller’s The Hunger Angel Doerte Bischoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
A Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology, and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and Budzyńska Anna Artwińska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Trauma Narration as Adventure Fiction: Ivan Bahrianyj’s Novel The Hunters and the Hunted Alexander Kratochvil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Index of Topics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: literary scholar, historians, philologists
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 280
Keywords: Camp narratives; Gulag literature; Holocaust literature; culture of remembrance

eBook

Published: May 20, 2019
ISBN: 9783110631135

Hardcover

Published: May 20, 2019
ISBN: 9783110628241

Paperback

Published: September 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110764567