Reading (in) the Holocaust

The book deals with the issue of the Holocaust in the Polish literature for children and adolescents. Drawing upon some of the leading Polish authors of the twentieth and the twentieth-first centuries, the author reveals the historical, ideological, and cultural entanglement of their works.

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Mägorzata Wójcik-Dudek (PhD) is a lecturer at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Her academic activities focus on the teaching of Polish literature at primary and high school levels, literature of children and young adults, and changes in cultural representations of the past in the Polish education.

Inhalt
Chapter One Mount of Remembrance The Predicament of Postmemory Educational Practices vis-a-vis the Holocaust The Polish School of Memory The Ethical Challenge of Reading about the Holocaust at School, or on the Importance of Context DS804.34 and PZ The Faultlines of Memory Chapter Two Jan Brzechwa's Pan Kleks Series: An Alternative Reading Games with Akademia pana Kleksa Between the See-Saw and the Scaffold: 1946 Growing up, or the Disenchantment of the World? An Academy or a Cheder? Aleph = Academy What Is Erasure? Younger Siblings of the Academy, or, on the Books That No One Reads The Difficult Case of Tryumf pana Kleksa The Fairy Tale that Does Not Uplift Chapter Three The Architecture of Biography: The Case of Korczak Between Memorials and Literature: From Mapping the City to Mapping Memory The Year of Korczak, or on the Troublesome Invasion of Memory From a Tactician to a Strategist: A Modern Take on Korczak Chapter Four Micronarratives from the Peripheries of the Holocaust Micronarratives and Counter-History, or on Overcoming Oppression The Holocaust According to Anne Frank Girls' Narratives: Intimist Writing and the Holocaust The Fairy Tale and the Holocaust The Trap of Meanings Chapter Five Motherhood in the State of Emergency Between the Yiddishe Mame and Mede The Metonymy of Mother: The Sliska Street Case The World without Mother: Patterns of Storytelling Mother as a Pretext Hunger/Satiety: Mother and Affect When Mother Is Far Away The Animal Point of View: Another Version of Motherhood Polish Mothers and the Rituals of Hospitality Chapter Six Space Management and Postmemory Sacred Landscape Beautiful Deceit Philosemitic Postmemory Playing with Space The Jewish Space a) The Continuity of the Wall b) Clearings of Truth The Post-Jewish Space Non-place: The Disneyland of Memory Space Talks Chapter Seven The Dybbuk Versus Facebook The Dybbuk: A Case Study of Kotka Brygidy by Joanna Rudniaska Facebook: A Case Study of Wszystkie lajki Marczuka by Pawe Bersewicz Close Strangers: An Attempt at a Conclusion Bibliography Index