Reading (In) the Holocaust: Practices of Postmemory in Recent Polish Literature for Children and Young Adults.

ISBN-13: 9783631808627 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 252 str.

Malgorzata Wojcik-Dudek

Opis

The book deals with the issue of the Holocaust in the Polish literature for children and adolescents. Drawing upon some of the leading Polish authors of the twentieth and the twentieth-first centuries, the author reveals the historical, ideological, and cultural entanglement of their works. The main focus of the book is to search for reasons behind the outpouring of interest in the Holocaust noticed in the most recent Polish literature for younger readers. Among these reasons, the author lists the Polish local and historical context, the new approach to issues traditionally seen as taboo, the development of memory and postmemory narratives, and the postmodern shift from a discursive totality and universalist explanations.

Spis treści

Chapter One Mount of Remembrance

The Predicament of Postmemory

Educational Practices vis-a-vis the Holocaust

The Polish School of Memory

The Ethical Challenge of Reading about the Holocaust at School, or

on the Importance of Context

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The Faultlines of Memory

Chapter Two Jan Brzechwa's Pan Kleks Series: An Alternative

Reading

Games with Akademia pana Kleksa

Between the See-Saw and the Scaffold: 1946

Growing up, or "the Disenchantment of the World"?

An Academy or a Cheder?

r Aleph = Academy

What Is Erasure?

Younger Siblings of the Academy, or, on the Books That No One Reads

The Difficult Case of Tryumf pana Kleksa

The Fairy Tale that Does Not Uplift

Chapter Three The Architecture of Biography: The Case of

Korczak

Between Memorials and Literature: From Mapping the City to

Mapping Memory

The Year of Korczak, or on the Troublesome Invasion of Memory

From a Tactician to a Strategist: A Modern Take on Korczak

Chapter Four Micronarratives from the Peripheries of the

Holocaust

Micronarratives and Counter-History, or on Overcoming Oppression

The Holocaust According to Anne Frank

Girls' Narratives: Intimist Writing and the Holocaust

The Fairy Tale and the Holocaust

The Trap of Meanings

Chapter Five Motherhood in the State of Emergency

Between the Yiddishe Mame and Medea

The Metonymy of Mother: The Sliska Street Case

The World without Mother: Patterns of Storytelling

Mother as a Pretext

Hunger/Satiety: Mother and Affect

When Mother Is Far Away

The Animal Point of View: Another Version of Motherhood

Polish Mothers and the Rituals of Hospitality

Chapter Six Space Management and Postmemory

Sacred Landscape

Beautiful Deceit

Philosemitic Postmemory

Playing with Space

The Jewish Space

a) The Continuity of the Wall

b) Clearings of Truth

The Post-Jewish Space

Non-place: The Disneyland of Memory

Space Talks

Chapter Seven The Dybbuk Versus Facebook

The Dybbuk: A Case Study of Kotka Brygidy by Joanna Rudnianska

Facebook: A Case Study of Wszystkie lajki Marczuka by Pawel

Beresewicz

Close Strangers: An Attempt at a Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Malgorzata Wójcik-Dudek (PhD) is a lecturer at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Her academic activities focus on the teaching of Polish literature at primary and high school levels, literature of children and young adults, and changes in cultural representations of the past in the Polish education.