March ’68 from the perspective of victims
– approximations (Baral, Naszkowska, Grynberg) Cover Image

Marzec ’68 z perspektywy pokrzywdzonych – przybliżenia (Baral, Naszkowska, Grynberg)
March ’68 from the perspective of victims – approximations (Baral, Naszkowska, Grynberg)

Author(s): Dorota Dąbrowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Jews; anti-Semitism; reportage; memories; identity

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the issue of how to recognize the experience of March 1968 in non-fictionliterature. The article analyses three publications – Zapiski z wygnania by Sabina Baral, Księgawyjścia by Mikołaj Grynberg and Ani tu, ani tam. Marzec ’68: powroty by Krystyna Naszkowska.The author of the article has set herself the goal of describing the genre diversity of the discussedworks and describing various mechanisms for shaping individual messages about March, throughwhich the authors of texts give the events referred to different meanings. The analysis of the publicationfocuses on the issues of diverse images of Polish anti-Semitism, ways in which Jews perceivethe social situation in March 1968, ways of discovering their own identity, and contemporary imagesof Poland and Poles.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 213-228
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English