Witness and the Body in Auschwitz - Early Literary Accounts of the Camp Experience

List of contents

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

About the author

By Bozena Karwowska

Product details

• Authors: Bozena Karwowska
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2023
• EAN: 9781666916935
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-693-5
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Poland, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Gender studies, gender groups, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust