The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture Contributor(s): Shallcross, Bożena (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253355648 ISBN-13: 9780253355645 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Jewish - Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) |
Dewey: 891.850 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (0.97 lbs) 200 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bożena 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 the writings of Zuzanna Ginczanka, Wladyslaw Szlengel, Zofia Nalkowska, Czeslaw Milosz, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Tadeusz Borowski. Combining close readings of selected texts with critical interrogations of a wide range of philosophical and theoretical approaches to the nature of matter, Shallcross's study broadens the current discourse on the Holocaust by embracing humble and overlooked material objects as they were perceived by writers of that time. |