Język, który niesie świadectwo niemocy – wybrane relacje ocalałych ze zbrodni wołyńskiej i ich poetyka
Language which Carries the Testimony of Powerlessness – Selected Accounts of the Volhynia Massacre Survivors and Their Poetics

Summary/Abstract: Based on a BA thesis, the article is an attempt to analyze over a hundred accounts of survivors of the Volhynia massacre, referring to the category of testimony. The author tries to find answers to the questions of how to speak about a genocide which cannot be expressed in words and why to speak about it. The author examines the personal accounts using the tools of literary criticism. The categories of time, space and silence are taken into account. Ways of creating the images of the perpetrators and the very descriptions of the crime are also analyzed, with the focus on factors that contribute to producing a given perception of reality by the survivors. Thus, among other things, the role played by the senses and religious affinity in a traumatic experience is examined.

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