Przeczulone słowa i drgające obrazy. O potencjalnych metodach badań nad Zagładą
Sensitive Words and Glitches: On Potential Methods in Holocaust Studies

Summary/Abstract: Szczepan examines the possibilities of applying Ariella Azoulay’s notion of potentialhistory in the context of Polish and East-Central European history and the Holocaust.Referring to this approach, as well as Madina Tlostanova’s decolonial theory and SvetlanaBoym’s concept of perspectivism, she proposes an “anamorphic” reading of Holocaustarchives and a search for “minor,” decolonial methods that would both underminethe neutrality of some of the categories in Holocaust studies and encompass a localEastern-European perspective. Basing her study on archival texts and recordings,Szczepan analyses two such categories – sensitive words and glitches – and postulatesexamining further ones, such as intimate cartographies and precarious monuments.

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