Reading (in) the Holocaust
Practices of Postmemory in Recent Polish Literature for Children and Young Adults
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5768592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Małgorzata Wójcik‐dudek (0000-0001-9032-8875, corresponding author), Małgorzata Wójcik-Dudek |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Reading the Holocaust (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Peter Lang D (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3726/b17001 |
| OpenAlex | W3015680346 |
| Open Library | OL34736696M |
| ISBN | 9783631822937 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Aleksandra Ubertowska argues that the above passage from Dorota Masłowska's play is an affirmation of posthistoricity in the sense of "the atrophy of 'grand narratives ' [...] which lay claim to imposing order on the magma-like, amorphous reality, to forcing it into a coherent shape and meaning." 2 Ubertowska is right, but her remark deserves some elaboration.The point is that the words of the Little Metal Girl reverberate with the summa of contemporary Polish socio-national projects, whose implementation is far from successful.The methodology of parochial, nationalistically-coloured patriotism has apparently failed, along with the concept of ethical-aesthetic education, if aims and destinations are only reached "over dead bodies" and in the rhythm of Julian Tuwim's celebrated "Locomotive." 3 As "dead bodies, dead bodies, dead bodies" 1 Dorota Masłowska's Między nami dobrze jest (literally: Things are Good Between Us) has been translated into English by Artur Zapałowski as No Matter How Hard We Tried, or We Exist on the Best Terms we Can and published in (A)pollonia: Twenty-First Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage, eds.Krystyna Duniec, Joanna Klass and Joanna Krakowska (London: Seagull Books, 2014).The quotation here does not come from this translation.2 Aleksandra Ubertowska, "Historia bez Ojca.Postmemorialne kobiece narracje
European history and politics · German History and Society · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |