Polish Camp Literature

Auteur

Arkadiusz Morawiec is a professor at the Faculty of Philology at the University of ód and a literary critic. His research focuses on the history of the 20th- and 21st-century Polish literature; he is especially interested in texts concerned with totalitarianism, genocide (including the Holocaust), and concentration and extermination camps. He also investigates literature as a medium of memory. He has published eight books, including Literatura w lagrze, lager w literaturze. Fakt temat metafora [Literature in the Lager, the Lager in literature: Fact theme metaphor] (2009) and Polish Literature and Genocide (2022). He has edited and co-edited eleven monographs, including The Literature in/after Concentration and Death Camps (2017) and Zag**ada wobec innych ludob*ó*jstw [Holocaust in the context of other genocides] (2020).

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Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly.

Résumé
Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly.

Contenu

Introduction: Camp Literature

1. Soviet Camps

1.1. The Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp ( ), 19231933

2. German Camps

2.1. The Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Post Weimar (Konzentrationslager Buchenwald, Post Weimar), 19371945

3. Polish Camps

3.1. The Place of Isolation in Bereza Kartuska (Miejsce Odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej), 19341939

3.2. The Labor Camp in ambinowice (Obóz Pracy w ambinowicach), 19451946

3.3. The Central Labor Camp in Jaworzno (Centralny Obóz Pracy w Jaworznie), 19451955

4. Spanish Camps

4.1. The Concentration Camp in Miranda de Ebro (Campo de Concentración de Miranda de Ebro), 19371947

5. Japanese Camps

5.1. Pingfang / Unit 731 (731), 19391945

Conclusion: Directions for the Future