Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Opowieść o niewinności
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2018) 7-52
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
The Polish culture has not yet worked through the experience of the Shoah. We ask about the narrative methods of constructing the bystander-witness in Polish texts of culture between 1942 and 2015. The Polish bystander, inscribed in the tales of the Shoah, is an intertextual category.The book takes a critical look at the constructions of the bystander-witness which share a national-Catholic perspective and concern for the heroic self-image of the community. This dominant syndrome of the Polish identity still holds today. The author analyzes the changing circumstances of communication between the times of the Holocaust and the contemporary times, and she asks what it means to have been a witness to the Shoah then and, through the passing decades, up until today.
Note:
Appeared in English in "The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942-2015" (2021) 1-39.
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