Polish Camp Literature

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

Autorentext

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).

Klappentext

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

Inhalt

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