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Postmodernizing the Holocaust
Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with “The First Splendor” by Leopold Buczkowski and ending with “The Suspected Dybbuk” by Andrzej Bart. She also presents their rich relationships with selected foreign-language prose, which intensified especially at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The culmination of the entire trend is a discussion around two novels: “Tworki” by Marek Bieńczyk and “Fly Trap Factory” by Andrzej Bart, which reveals the aestheticizing and post-memorial profile of Polish postmodernization and its advantage over the historiosophical trend. This monograph is not only the first such collection of post-Holocaust postmodern novels, but also the first comprehensive study of postmodernism in the literature about the Holocaust, which, thanks to comparative analysis, tries to analyze and explain the circumstances of the appearance and later disappearance of this trend from cultural landscape of the world and Poland.
Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction
The Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction aims to increase the visibility and show the versatility of works from East-Central European countries. It is the first encyclopedic work to bridge the gap between the literary production of countries that are considered to be main sites of the Holocaust and their recognition in international academic and public discourse. It contains over 100 entries offering not only facts about the content and motifs but also pointing out the characteristic fictional features of each work and its meaning for academic discourse and wider reception in the country of origin and abroad. The publication will appeal to the academic and broader public i...
United in Diversity
What are the future perspectives for Jews and Jewish networks in contemporary Europe? Is there a new quality of relations between Jews and non-Jews, despite or precisely because of the Holocaust trauma? How is the memory of the extermination of 6 million European Jews reflected in memorial events and literature, film, drama, and visual arts media? To what degree do European Jews feel as integrated people, as Europeans per see, and as safe citizens? An interdisciplinary team of historians, cultural anthropologists, sociologists, and literary theorists answers these questions for Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Germany. They show that the Holocaust has become an enduring topic in public among Jews and non-Jews. However, Jews in Europe work self-confidently on their future on the "old continent," new alliances, and in cooperation with a broad network of civil forces. Non-Jewish interest in Jewish history and the present has significantly increased over decades, and networks combatting anti-Semitism have strengthened.
Polish Jewish Re-Remembering
The title of this monograph, ‘Polish-Jewish Re-Remembering’, refers to the post-1989, thirty-year-long process of reviving attention to Polish-Jewish relations in historical, cultural, and literary studies, including the impact of Jews on the development of Polish culture, their presence in Polish social life, and the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Poland. The book consists of four parts: the first focuses on Polish, Jewish and Polish-Jewish Literature (dealing mainly with pre-1939 literary works); the second, on the post-war literary output of the Polish-Jewish writer Arnold Słucki (1920–1972); the third, on Polish-Israeli literary images in the works of writers who were active in Israel (1948–2018); and the fourth, on recent (after 2000) Polish Holocaust literature.
Zofia Kossaks Geschichte(n)
Die polnische Schriftstellerin Zofia Kossak (1889–1968) schrieb historische Romane, mit denen sie versuchte, die Traumata des 20. Jahrhunderts zu überwinden – zwei Kriege, die Oktoberrevolution, die Inhaftierung im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz und den Verlust der Heimat. Die Beiträger:innen befassen sich mit individuellen und kollektiven Erfahrungen, mit der menschlichen Einsamkeit angesichts der großen Geschichte, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf den Prosawerken und autobiografischen Aufzeichnungen Kossaks liegt, die sowohl in Bezug auf die Erzählweise als auch auf den Ideengehalt als Traditionalistin gilt. Die hier vorgeschlagenen Interpretationen, die sich auf zeitgenössische literaturwissenschaftliche Theorien stützen, brechen jedoch mit dem stereotypen Denken und werfen ein neues Licht auf Kossaks Werk, indem sie die Aufmerksamkeit auf das lenken, was sie in ihrer unmittelbaren Umgebung wahrnahm, was sie beschäftigte und was auch zu den Problemen des 21. Jahrhunderts gehört: auf den Totalitarismus, den Heimatverlust, die Bedeutung der Vergangenheit für die Gegenwart oder die Sorge um die Umwelt angesichts der industriellen Entwicklung.
Engagiert sein in der Gegenwart
Der Band beschäftigt sich mit dem Begriff des Engagements, indem er literarische und künstlerische Projekte von internationalen Autorinnen und Autoren betrachtet, die als interventionistisch, kritisch und radikal konzipiert sind. Bezugspunkt solcher Arbeiten sind in der Regel konkrete Veränderungen in der sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Realität. Die Konfrontation mit verschiedenen literarischen, historischen, philosophischen und kulturellen Traditionen, die in diesem Band stattfindet, bereichert die Reflexion über die gegenwärtigen Möglichkeiten, Kunst, Literatur und Kultur in Prozesse der Transformation der nicht-künstlerischen Welt einzubinden. Es macht den Anschein, dass man heutzutage Zeuge einer neuen Beziehung zwischen Kunst, Wissenschaft und Aktivismus wird.
Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction
Though often unnoticed by scholars of literature and history, Polish American women have for decades been fighting back against the patriarchy they encountered in America and the patriarchy that followed them from Poland. Through close readings of several Polish American and Polish Canadian novels and short stories published over the last seven decades, Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction traces the evolution of this struggle and women’s efforts to construct gendered and classed ethnicity. Focusing predominantly on work by North American born and immigrant authors that represents the Polish American Catholic tradition, Grażyna J. Kozaczka puts texts in conversation...
Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe
For more than 40 years Eastern European culture came under the sway of Soviet rule. What is the legacy of this period for cultural attitudes to the environment and the contemporary battle to confront climate change? This is the first in-depth study of the legacy of the Soviet era on attitudes to the environment in countries such as Poland, Hungary and Ukraine. Exploring responses in literature, culture and film to political projects such as the collectivisation of agricultural land, the expansion of the mining industry and disasters such as the Chernobyl explosion, Anna Barcz opens up new understandings of local political traditions and examines how they might be harnessed in the cause of contemporary environmental activism. The book covers works by writers such as Christa Wolf, the Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich and film-makers such as Béla Tarr, Andrzej Wajda and Wladyslaw Pasikowski.
The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures
The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region. Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected essays explore the discursive and artistic space the Shoah occupies in the countries between Moscow and Berlin. Postcatastrophe is informed by the knowledge of other concepts of "post" and shares their insight into forms of transmission and latency; in contrast to them, explores the after-effects of extreme...
Neues historisches Erzählen
Durch das Medium der Literatur wird die Gesellschaft zur Diskussion über differente Deutungen des Vergangenen angeregt, denn in den erzählten Geschichten kommt es zu einer Konstruktion von historischen Abläufen und zu einer immer neuen Darstellung von Figuren, Räumen und Zeit. Literatur reagiert schnell und seismographisch auf gesellschaftliche Veränderungen, die aufgenommen und durch die Autorinnen und Autoren auf subjektive Weise verarbeitet werden. Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger dieses Bandes nehmen literarische Texte in den Blick, in denen Fragen der deutschen und der polnischen Geschichte eine bedeutende Rolle spielen. Verbunden damit ist der Versuch, Texte ins Zentrum zu rück...
