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Author:

Karwowska, Bożena, author.

Title:

The witness and the body in Auschwitz : early literary accounts of the camp experience / Bożena Karwowska.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

v, 191 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--In literature.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors' writings--History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Autobiography--Jewish authors.
Autobiographical memory in literature.
Human body in literature.
Feminist criticism.
Autobiographical memory in literature
Autobiography--Jewish authors
Feminist criticism
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
Holocaust survivors' writings
Human body in literature
Literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The human body in the concentration camp -- Reading women's Auschwitz literature : Seweryna Szmaglewska's Smoke over Birkenau - then and now -- Bystander as a witness : Wiesław Kielar and his Anus Mundi -- Writing an Auschwitz memoir as an autobiography -- Tadeusz Borowski : the education of a writer -- Prostitution in the space of violence -- Mapping Auschwitz : space, memory, narration -- Coda.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1666916935
9781666916935

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1391449423

LCCN:

2023034469

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)