Postmodernizing the Holocaust
A Comparative Study of Chosen Novels
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2024
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1. Edition 2023
V&R unipress (Verlag)
978-3-8471-1678-3 (ISBN)
V&R unipress (Verlag)
978-3-8471-1678-3 (ISBN)
Curiosity about the fate of postmodernism combined with interest in the fate of novels about the Holocaust as a chance to explain the common failures of postmodernism and the complicated history of postmodern post-Holocaust prose
Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with "The First Splendor" and ending with "The Suspected Dybbuk" by Andrzej Bart. She also presents their rich relationships with selected foreign-language prose, which intensified especially at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The culmination of the entire trend is a discussion around two novels: "Tworek" by Marek Bienczyk and "Fabryka Mucholapek" by Andrzej Bart, which reveals the aestheticizing and post-memorial profile of Polish post-modernization and its advantage over the historiosophical trend. This monograph is not only the first such collection of post-Holocaust postmodern novels, but also the first comprehensive study of postmodernism in the literature about the Holocaust, which, thanks to comparative analysis, tries to analyze and explain the circumstances of the appearance and later disappearance of this trend from cultural landscape of the world and Poland.
Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with "The First Splendor" and ending with "The Suspected Dybbuk" by Andrzej Bart. She also presents their rich relationships with selected foreign-language prose, which intensified especially at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The culmination of the entire trend is a discussion around two novels: "Tworek" by Marek Bienczyk and "Fabryka Mucholapek" by Andrzej Bart, which reveals the aestheticizing and post-memorial profile of Polish post-modernization and its advantage over the historiosophical trend. This monograph is not only the first such collection of post-Holocaust postmodern novels, but also the first comprehensive study of postmodernism in the literature about the Holocaust, which, thanks to comparative analysis, tries to analyze and explain the circumstances of the appearance and later disappearance of this trend from cultural landscape of the world and Poland.
Prof Dr Marta Tomczok, an environmental literary historian, works in the humanistic department at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She especially concentrates on carbocene and carbon/decarbonization influence of culture. Her studies are connected with visual arts, contemporary literature, and material and nonmaterial postindustrial heritage. She has published books devoted to Polish-Jewish writers (including Leo Lipski and Irit Amiel). Recently, together with Piotr Mitzner, she prepared an edition of Krystiana Robb-Narbutt’s literary works.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.12.2023 |
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| Reihe/Serie | TRANSitions ; Band 007 |
| Verlagsort | Göttingen |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 457 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | Fiction • First Splendor • Georges Perec • Holocaust • Holocaust studies • Leopold Buczkowski • Non-Jewish Writer • Novel • Poland • Polish Literature • post-Holocaust • Postmodernism • Prose • Raymond Federman • Second World War • World War II |
| ISBN-10 | 3-8471-1678-9 / 3847116789 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-8471-1678-3 / 9783847116783 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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