The Holocaust object in Polish and Polish-Jewish culture

Responsibility
Bożena Shallcross.
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Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
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1 online resource (181 pages)

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Shallcross, Bożena, author.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • The Totalized Object: An Introduction On Jouissance
  • 1. A Dandy and Jewish Detritus
  • 2. The Material Letter J On Waste and Matter
  • 3. Holocaust Soap and the Story of Its Production
  • 4. The Guilty Afterlife of the Soma On Contact
  • 5. The Manuscript Lost in Warsaw
  • 6. Things, Touch, and Detachment in Auschwitz Coda: The Post-Holocaust Object Acknowledgments and Permissions Notes Bibliography Index.
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Summary
In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Boena 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, Wadysaw Szlengel, Zofia Nakowska, Czesaw Miosz, 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.
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Publication date
2011
ISBN
9780253005090 (electronic bk.)
0253005094 (electronic bk.)
9780253355645
0253355648
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