The Theme of Rape in Ida Fink’s Aryan Papers and Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s Our Class
The Theme of Rape in Ida Fink’s Aryan Papers and Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s Our Class

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the ways in which Central European postwar societies produce gen¬dered representations of Holocaust stories. Calderón Puerta shows how sexual violence functions in culture, highlighting the different ways in which it can be represented in literary texts: it can be understood as a symbol of relationships between antagonistic communities of men (what Roland Barthes refers to as mythologization), but it can also be seen to symbolize the continuum of violence in patriarchy (violence against specific women, structural violence and symbolic violence). Calderón Puerta argues that the different ways of understanding the representation of rape are related to the difference between masculine and feminine points of view.

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