Research Catalog

Title

Narratives of annihilation, confinement, and survival : camp literature in a transnational perspective / edited by Anja Tippner and Anna Artwińska.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Artwińska, Anna
• Tippner, Anja, 1963-

Description

vi, 280 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

The concept of "camp narratives" rather than "Holocaust narratives" or "Gulag narratives" is based on the assumption that literary accounts of camp experiences share common traits, aesthetically as well as thematically. The book presents readings of camp literature that underscore the similarities between texts about Soviet gulag camps, Nazi camps and about other camp experiences. While literature about Nazi concentration camps still serves as a point of reference for camp narratives in the same way that the Holocaust serves as a point of reference for other genocidal operations, socialist labor and penal camps have become transnational lieux de mémoire in their own right since 1989. This volume intends to provide a theoretical frame as well as an overview of several important European camp literatures and case studies of iconic camp narratives and to take a comparative and transnational perspective on the genre of the camp narrative.

Series Statement

Culture & conflict, 2194-7104 ; volume 14

Uniform Title

Culture & conflict ; Bd. 14.

Subject

• Nazi concentration camps in literature
• Nazi concentration camp inmates' writings > History and criticism
• Political prisoners' writings > History and criticism
• Holocaust survivors' writings > History and criticism
• Literature and transnationalism
• Nazi concentration camp inmates' writings
• Holocaust survivors' writings
• Political prisoners' writings

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Camp Narratives in a Comparative Transnational Perspective / Tippner, Anja and Artwińska, Anna -- I: Comparing Camp Narratives: Theoretical Approaches -- Towards a Literary History of Concentration Camps: Comparative or "Entangled"? / Toker, Leona -- Worlds Apart? Cross-mapping Camp Literature from the Gulag and Nazi Concentration Camps / Tippner, Anja -- II: Defining Camp Literatures: Overview -- Transcultural Memorial Forms in Post-Soviet Estonian Narratives of the Gulag / Laanes, Eneken -- Representations of the Gulag and Methods of Resistance: Romanian Detention Memoirs / Cesereanu, Ruxandra -- Polish Literature of Soviet Prison Camps: An Outline of Issues / Sucharski, Tadeusz -- Between the Sun and the Stone - The Naked Body: Yugoslav "Re-education" Camps in Literary Representations / Beganović, Davor -- Presence through Absence: The Aesthetics of Blank Space in French Holocaust Literature and Film / Rothstein, Anne-Berenike -- Konzentrationslager in Polish Literature: From Metaphorization to Metaphor / Morawiec, Arkadiusz -- III: Witnessing and Remembering Camp Experiences: Comparative Case Studies -- The Grey Zones of Witnessing: Levi, Améry, Shalamov / Segler-Messner, Silke -- The Ghetto of Leningrad, the Siege of Theresienstadt: A Comparative Reading of Enforced Communities / Sandomirskaja, Irina -- Uncanny Contingencies: Translation, Comparison, and Compassion in Herta Müller's The Hunger Angel / Bischoff, Doerte -- A Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology, and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and Budzyńska / Artwińska, Anna -- Trauma Narration as Adventure Fiction: Ivan Bahrianyj's Novel The Hunters and the Hunted / Kratochvil, Alexander -- About the Authors -- Index of Names -- Index of Topics

Call Number

JFE 20-1249

ISBN

• 9783110628241
• 3110628244
• 9783110631135
• 311063113X
• 9783110630985
• 3110630982

LCCN

• 2019931984
• 9783110628241

OCLC

1103510111

Title

Narratives of annihilation, confinement, and survival : camp literature in a transnational perspective / edited by Anja Tippner and Anna Artwińska.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Culture & conflict, 2194-7104 ; volume 14

Culture & conflict ; Bd. 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Artwińska, Anna, editor.

Tippner, Anja, 1963- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

9783110628241

Research Call Number

JFE 20-1249