Postmodernizing the Holocaust

A Comparative Study of Chosen Novels
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-8471-1678-3
Verlag: V & R Unipress GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 007, 230 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

Reihe: TRANSitions

Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with “The First Splendor” by Leopold Buczkowski 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: “Tworki” by Marek Bienczyk and “Fly Trap Factory” by Andrzej Bart, which reveals the aestheticizing and post-memorial profile of Polish postmodernization 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomczok, Marta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Über Autor(innen)

Tomczok, Marta
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.