“...a Pile of Rubble, Heap of Corpses, Great Cesspool, Gigantic Hole Filled with Black Blood”. Insurgent Fantasies in Kinderszenen by Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz Cover Image
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„...kupa gruzów, kupa trupów, wielkie szambo, wielka dziura wypełniona czarną krwią”. Powstańcze fantazje w Kinderszenen Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza
“...a Pile of Rubble, Heap of Corpses, Great Cesspool, Gigantic Hole Filled with Black Blood”. Insurgent Fantasies in Kinderszenen by Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz

Author(s): Zbigniew Jazienicki
Subject(s): History, Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Rymkiewicz; Warsaw Uprising; nation; community; nationalism; male fantasies; national identity; memory

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the memory practices activated in Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’sKinderszenen, an essay devoted to the Warsaw Uprising. The text refers to Klaus Theweleit’sMale Fantasies analyzing the language of male soldiers, and examines the work of the samelinguistic logic which determines the way in which the events in the capital are presented.The Nazification of memory involves here the demonstration of obscenity of the uprisingand recognizing it as constitutive to the national identity. The purpose of the text is to capturethe relationship between shaping collective memory and creating “genogenic” imaginariumintegrating the Polish community.

  • Issue Year: 457/2017
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 49-59
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish