The Holocaust object in Polish and Polish-Jewish culture
[Book]
Bożena Shallcross
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c2011
1 online resource (181 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index
On jouissance -- A dandy and Jewish detritus -- The material letter J -- On waste and matter -- Holocaust soap and the story of its production -- The guilty afterlife of the soma -- On contact -- The manuscript lost in Warsaw -- Things, touch, and detachment in Auschwitz -- Coda: the post-Holocaust object
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In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bozena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects -- pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils -- tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts. Shallcross delineates the ways in which Holocaust objects are represented in Polish and Polish-Jewish texts written during or shortly after World War II. These representational strategies are distilled from
Holocaust object in Polish and Polish-Jewish culture.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-- Poland
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Polish literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
Polish literature-- Jewish authors-- History and criticism