Polish Literature and Genocide

Arkadiusz Morawiec, Katarzyna Szuster-Tardi

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Routledge
31 December 2021

Literary theory; Literary studies: general; European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Genocide & ethnic cleansing

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

"Polish Literature and Genocide presents the attitude of Polish literature to the 20th-century acts of genocide. This volume examines the literary representations of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the massacre in Srebrenica in a rich, detailed, and comprehensive way, expanding the existing research and, in some cases, challenging the former sometimes ossified ideas. Polish literature not only reflects the obvious extermination of Jews and Poles, but also records what had been largely overlooked: the extermination of disabled and mentally ill people, the Roma and Sinti, and the Soviet prisoners of war by the Nazis. This volume includes analysis of the literary works of Władysław Szlengel, the most prominent Polish-language poet in the Warsaw ghetto; the peculiar reception of Julian Tuwim’s famous poem for children ""Locomotive;"" the memoir of Leon Weliczker, a prisoner of the Janowska concentration camp in Lvov and a member of the ‘death brigade’ (Sonderkommando); the origins of Medallions by Zofia Nałkowska, who ‘processed’ historical documents into literature and contributed to the making of professor Rudolf Spanner’s ‘dark legend,’ and the textual origins of Tadeusz Różewicz’s ‘poetry after Auschwitz.’ Furthermore, this volume addresses issues related to the genesis and function of ‘genocide literature’ – aesthetic, cognitive, ideological, and social. This volume will be a crucial resource for academics interested in genocide and Holocaust literary studies."

By: Arkadiusz Morawiec
Translated by: Katarzyna Szuster-Tardi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032109138
ISBN 10: 1032109130
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 31 December 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Arkadiusz Morawiec is a professor at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Łódź 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 opowiadań Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego. Autentyzm –– dyskursywność –– paraboliczność [The poetics of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’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 dziesięcioleci [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, łagier, obóz –– zapis. Obszary [Konzentrationslager, gulag, obóz –– records: Research areas] (2017), Lager, łagier, obóz –– zapis. Lektury [Konzentrationslager, gulag, obóz –– records: Texts] (2018), and Zagłada wobec innych ludobójstw [Holocaust in the face of other genocides] (2020).