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The Book of Exit

Author(s): Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Jewish studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne
Keywords: animal studies; Holocaust studies; trauma studies; Dominick LaCapra; Giorgio Agamben; Timothy Pachirat; Temple Grandin; Jacques Derrida

Summary/Abstract: The text “The Book of Exit” delineates a perspective of animal studies understood as a consequence of the trauma theory and the Holocaust studies. At the foundations of the article are the views of Dominick LaCapry from 2004-2014, included by the author in the context of the current Polish and American cultural debates. In this interpretation the posthumanities and monster studies—vividly developing nowadays—are not only transformation but also overpower the melancholy of studies into trauma, completed at the price of parting from an individualistically crafted version of a liberal subject.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 67-92
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish