Symboliczna mobilizacja umarłych. II wojna światowa w nekropolitykach Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza i Przemysława Dakowicza
The Symbolic Mobilisation of the Dead: World War II in Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz and Przemysław Dakowicz’s Necropolitics
Author(s): Paweł TomczokSubject(s): Jewish studies, Polish Literature, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Theory of Literature, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: politics of history; historical memory; World War II in literature; World War II in essays;
Summary/Abstract: The politics of history in literature are shifting from the modern model of learning about the past through a critical analysis of documents to questioning the basic methodologies of historiography. A symbolic or supernatural unity of past and present is assumed in the essays examined here – Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s Kinderszenen and Przemysław Dakowicz’s two-volume Afazja polska [Polish Aphasia]. Rejecting objectivity, these texts (which refer to various events during World War II, especially the beginning of military operations in September 1939 and the Warsaw Uprising) call for an involvement or even mobilisation of the dead, seeking to establish contact with them so that they might support elementary political debates.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 251-264
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Polish
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