A Solitary Man in the Space of Genocide
A Solitary Man in the Space of Genocide
Author(s): Paweł TomczokSubject(s): Historical Geography, Political history, Polish Literature, History of the Holocaust, Political Essay, Tourism, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: genocide; historical tourism; the Shoah; the Holocaust; historical politics; essay; reportage; geopoetics
Summary/Abstract: In this essay, I discuss a particular narrative structure manifest in contemporary genocide narratives, a structure based on a distinctive presence of a first-person – usually male – narrator, who describes his experiences and reflections born in the course of his peregrinations to sites of mass extermination. Rooting my research in geocriticism, I explore ties between space and memory, which allows me to distinguish several levels of analyzed texts, tending towards metaphysical generalizations of nihilistic or patriotic nature. I apply the said analytical categories to my study of selected passages of Dawid Szkoła’s and Przemysław Dakowicz’s respective essays.
Journal: Narracje o Zagładzie
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 213-233
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English