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Record Nr.

UNINA9910508506403321

Autore

Wójcik-Dudek Małgorzata

Titolo

Reading (in) the Holocaust : practices of postmemory in recent Polish literature for children and young adults / / Małgorzata Wójcik-Dudek ; translated by Patrycja Poniatowska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2020

Berlin : , : Peter Lang, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-631-82293-6

3-631-82292-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Collana

Studies in Jewish history and memory ; ; Volume 14

Disciplina

809.93358

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.