Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,1 (2021) 24-42
Keywords:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Polish fiction History and criticism 20th century
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Polish fiction History and criticism 21st century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Jedwabne Massacre, Jedwabne, Poland, 1941
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Collective memory
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Jews in literature
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Jews Identity 20th century
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History
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Jews Identity 21st century
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History
Abstract:
This article looks at how the post-1989 Polish literature becomes a mimesis of memory (Erll and Rigney), arguing it responds to shifts within Polish cultural memory of the Holocaust: from the absence of Auschwitz as a Jewish tragedy, through a wide, national debate about Polish complicity in the Holocaust provoked by Jan. T. Gross’s book about Jedwabne, Neighbours (2000), to the recent trend of re-judaizing the Polish (literary) landscape. It analyzes the themes and modes of representing the Holocaust and Polish–Jewish relations in fictional works by P. Huelle, O. Tokarczuk, T. Słobodzianek, P. Płaziński and S. Twardoch, primarily concerned with memory.
DOI:
10.1080/17504902.2019.1625115
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