O literackich sposobach mistyfikowania doświadczenia obozowego kobiet w historycznoliterackim kontekście. Zofia Kossak, Seweryna Szmaglewska, Krystyna Żywulska
On Literary Ways of Mystifying Experience of Women in Concentration Camps in Historical Perspective. Zofa Kossak, Seweryna Szmaglewska, Krystyna Żywulska

Summary/Abstract: The research which has been carried out on three novels by women about KL Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp: Zofia Kossak’s Z otchłani [Out of the Abyss], Seweryna Szmaglewska’s Smoke over Birkenau, and Krystyna Żywulska’s I Survived Auschwitz shows that these texts alter the reality of the camps and the means used to do it, are diverse, but all of them are literary. Therefore, I argue for the need to the synthesis of concentration camps literaturę written by women in the wider context of Polish literature, particularly of Holocaust literature. In this way my research might prove valuable because of the new level of awareness about: female experiences of concentration camps and of the literary nature of concentration camps literature and of the Polish concentration camp literature in general.

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