Pamięć nieumarła. Czytając Kazimierza Wykę w Polsce roku 2016
Undead Memory: Reading Kazimierz Wyka in Poland in 2016

Summary/Abstract: In Western Europe, memory studies are marked by an effort to give voice to those silenced by dominant narratives. In Poland, meanwhile, the current ‘memory turn’ openly flirts with post-truth and paves the way for a new hegemony. This way of framing memory takes advantage of the poststructuralist humanities’ defenceless position, and it gradually appropriates its tools and yokes them to the rhetoric of propaganda. The new project of collective memory breaks with Ricœur’s triad of blocked memory – memory of repetition – obligated memory. It privileges blockage and repetition as modes of commemorating (‘undead memory’ – a paradoxical posthumanist realization of the category of the undead). Tokarska-Bakir demonstrates this tendency in a case study on the development of public discourse on the Kielce pogrom of 1946.

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