Polish Camp Literature

Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly.

List of contents

Introduction: camp literature
1. Soviet camps
The Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿), 1923-1933
2. German camps
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp, post Weimar (Konzentrationslager Buchenwald, Post Weimar), 1937-1945
3. Polish camps
The Place of Isolation in Bereza Kartuska (Miejsce Odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej), 1934-1939
The Labor Camp in ¿ambinowice (Obóz Pracy w ¿ambinowicach), 1945-1946
The Central Labor Camp in Jaworzno (Centralny Obóz Pracy w Jaworznie), 1945-1955
4. Spanish camps
The Concentration Camp in Miranda de Ebro (Campo de Concentración de Miranda de Ebro), 1937-1947
5. Japanese camps
Pingfang/Unit 731 (731¿¿), 1939-1945
Conclusion: directions for the future
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Arkadiusz Morawiec is a Professor at the Faculty of Philology at the University of ¿ód¿ and a literary critic. His research focuses on the history of the 20th- and 21st-century Polish literature; he is especially interested in texts concerned with totalitarianism, genocide (including the Holocaust), and concentration and extermination camps. He has published eight books, including Polish Literature and Genocide (2022), and has edited and co-edited eleven monographs, including The Literature in/after Concentration and Death Camps (2017) and Zag¿ada wobec innych ludobójstw [Holocaust in the context of other genocides] (2020).

Summary

Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly.

Product details

• Authors: Arkadiusz Morawiec
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032807218
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3280721-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Eastern Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000