Between Freedom and Imprisonment. The Shanghai Ghetto from the Perspective of the Bulgarian Writer Angel Wagenstein
Between Freedom and Imprisonment. The Shanghai Ghetto from the Perspective of the Bulgarian Writer Angel Wagenstein
Author(s): Marzanna KuczyńskaSubject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Bulgarian Literature, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Angel Wagenstein; Bulgarian literature; roman; China; Shanghai; World War II;
Summary/Abstract: Angel Wagenstein’s novel Farewell, Shanghai is this article’s focal point. The atten-tion focuses on the literary picture of the Shanghai ghetto (Hongkew district) during the Second World War. Wagenstein shows the ghetto as symbol of the end of the Jews’s eternal wandering, where they found autonomy from other nations, and reunification based on sufferings and religion. Before them there stands the long-awaited promised land, where they themselves will govern themselves.
Journal: Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 117-130
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English