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O ułomności pamiętania – literackie i okołoliterackie świadectwa pamięci o Zagładzie
On the weakness of remembering - literary and literary testimonies of the Holocaust remembrance

Author(s): Paweł Piszczatowski
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Holocaust; trauma; postmemory; Marianne Hirsch
Summary/Abstract: The book presents various aspects of literary representations of post-Holocaust trauma in texts of Polish and German literature. The phenomena of transgenerational memory transmission or – as Marianne Hirsh puts it – "postmemory" are an important element of the author’s reflections.

  • Page Range: 9-15
  • Page Count: 7
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Language: Polish, German