Bozena Karwowska

The Witness and the Body in Auschwitz

Early Literary Accounts of the Camp Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2023
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781666916935
• ISBN-10: 1666916935
• Artikelnr.: 68536113

Autorenporträt

Bozena Karwowska is professor in the department of Central, Eastern and Northern European studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Human Body in the Concentration Camp
Chapter 2: Reading Women's Auschwitz Literature. Seweryna Szmaglewska's
Smoke over Birkenau - Then and Now
Chapter 3: Bystander as a Witness. Wies¿aw Kielar and his Anus Mundi
Chapter 4: Writing an Auschwitz Memoir as an Autobiography
Chapter 5: Tadeusz Borowski - The Education of a Writer
Chapter 6: Prostitution in the Space of Violence
Chapter 7: Mapping Auschwitz: Space, Memory, Narration
Coda
Bibliography