Cyganki w Birkenau (w literaturze polskiej)
Gypsy Women in Birkenau (in Polish Literature)
Author(s): Arkadiusz MorawiecSubject(s): Gender Studies, Polish Literature, Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Polish literature; Gypsy literature; Gypsies; women; eroticism; homicide; Auschwitz-Birkenau; Ziegeunerlager (Gypsy camp);
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the homicide on the Gypsy people perpetrated by the Nazi Germans during World War II and its representations in Polish literature (and, to a lesser extent, in Gypsy literature). The subject matter of the analysis is the motif of the Gypsy camp (Ziegeunerlager) functioning inside the Auschwitz-Birkenau Konzentrationslager, especially the image of Gypsy women inmates, shaped by both the camp reality and stereotypes, including the Orientalizing cliché about their particular sensuality.
Journal: Konteksty Kultury
- Issue Year: 14/2017
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 375-389
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish