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The "Spectral Turn": Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire
Zuzanna Dziuban
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Description for The "Spectral Turn": Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire
paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVP; AB; JFCA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150. .
Over the last decades, studies on cultural memory have taken a »spectral turn« and have explored the potential of haunting metaphors for addressing past instances of violence that affect present cultural realities. This book contributes to the discussions on haunting by enquiring into its culturally and historically located modality: the emergence of the figure of the Jewish ghost in contemporary Polish popular culture, literature and critical art. Gathering contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, it locates this new interest in Jewish ghosts on the map of other Polish (and Jewish) ghostologies and seeks to explore their cultural and political ... Read more
Over the last decades, studies on cultural memory have taken a »spectral turn« and have explored the potential of haunting metaphors for addressing past instances of violence that affect present cultural realities. This book contributes to the discussions on haunting by enquiring into its culturally and historically located modality: the emergence of the figure of the Jewish ghost in contemporary Polish popular culture, literature and critical art. Gathering contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, it locates this new interest in Jewish ghosts on the map of other Polish (and Jewish) ghostologies and seeks to explore their cultural and political ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Transcript Publishing Germany
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837636291
SKU
V9783837636291
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About Zuzanna Dziuban
Zuzanna Dziuban (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and Freie University of Berlin. Her research focus is on memory studies, dead body studies, and the afterlives of the Holocaust.
Reviews for The "Spectral Turn": Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire
»Der Mehrwert des Sammelbandes liegt darin, dass er die Ambivalenz aufzeigt, mit der das polnisch-jüdische Verhältnis noch immer betrachtet wird.« Cordula Kentler, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung, 1 (2022) Besprochen in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 03.08.2020, Jörg Skriebeleit