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The Witness and the Body in Auschwitz - Bozena Karwowska

The Witness and the Body in Auschwitz

Early Literary Accounts of the Camp Experience
Buch | Hardcover
198 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1693-5 (ISBN)
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The Witness and the Body in Auschwitz: Early Literary Accounts of the Camp Experience discusses the meanings of corporeality in Auschwitz based on memory-based texts written by survivors in the early postwar years. This book discusses questions related to the body, gender, sexuality, and sexual violence as a prisoner.
The Witness and the Body in Auschwitz: Early Literary Accounts of the Camp Experience examines bodily descriptions from early testimonies of concentration camp survivors focusing on questions related to meanings of corporeality, as well as to Holocaust researchers, and links the discourse of the body with a social cartography of the Auschwitz camp complex. The heart of the book is comprised of memory-based texts written by survivors in the early years after the war. The early texts discussed were written in Polish and while some became internationally recognized, others, remain virtually unknown, especially outside of Poland. These early memoirs and literary works help navigate the space of the Auschwitz camp complex from the perspective of the victims’ based on their experiences and decipher those areas devoid of narratives, spaces of “total annihilation.” Literary accounts and early testimonies allow us to map the space of the camp differently than through the documents produced by the Nazi-perpetrators. Such a social cartography also includes specific gendered differences and allows Karwowska to critically analyze sensitive questions related to the body, gender, and sexuality of a prisoner.

Bozena Karwowska is professor in the department of Central, Eastern and Northern European studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Human Body in the Concentration Camp

Chapter 2: Reading Women’s Auschwitz Literature. Seweryna Szmaglewska’s Smoke over Birkenau - Then and Now

Chapter 3: Bystander as a Witness. Wiesław Kielar and his Anus Mundi

Chapter 4: Writing an Auschwitz Memoir as an Autobiography

Chapter 5: Tadeusz Borowski – The Education of a Writer

Chapter 6: Prostitution in the Space of Violence

Chapter 7: Mapping Auschwitz: Space, Memory, Narration

Coda

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 237 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-6669-1693-5 / 1666916935
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-1693-5 / 9781666916935
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