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Polish Literature and Genocide presents the attitude of Polish
literature to the 20th-century acts of genocide. This volume
examines the literary representations of the Armenian genocide, the
Holocaust, and the massacre in Srebrenica in a rich, detailed, and
comprehensive way, expanding the existing research and, in some
cases, challenging the former sometimes ossified ideas. Polish
literature not only reflects the obvious extermination of Jews and
Poles, but also records what had been largely overlooked: the
extermination of disabled and mentally ill people, the Roma and
Sinti, and the Soviet prisoners of war by the Nazis. This volume
includes analysis of the literary works of Władysław Szlengel,
the most prominent Polish-language poet in the Warsaw ghetto; the
peculiar reception of Julian Tuwim’s famous poem for children
"Locomotive;" the memoir of Leon Weliczker, a prisoner of the
Janowska concentration camp in Lvov and a member of the ‘death
brigade’ (Sonderkommando); the origins of Medallions by Zofia
Nałkowska, who ‘processed’ historical documents into
literature and contributed to the making of professor Rudolf
Spanner’s ‘dark legend,’ and the textual origins of Tadeusz
Różewicz’s ‘poetry after Auschwitz.’ Furthermore, this
volume addresses issues related to the genesis and function of
‘genocide literature’ – aesthetic, cognitive, ideological,
and social. This volume will be a crucial resource for academics
interested in genocide and Holocaust literary studies.
Polish Literature and Genocide presents the attitude of Polish
literature to the 20th-century acts of genocide. This volume
examines the literary representations of the Armenian genocide, the
Holocaust, and the massacre in Srebrenica in a rich, detailed, and
comprehensive way, expanding the existing research and, in some
cases, challenging the former sometimes ossified ideas. Polish
literature not only reflects the obvious extermination of Jews and
Poles, but also records what had been largely overlooked: the
extermination of disabled and mentally ill people, the Roma and
Sinti, and the Soviet prisoners of war by the Nazis. This volume
includes analysis of the literary works of Wladyslaw Szlengel, the
most prominent Polish-language poet in the Warsaw ghetto; the
peculiar reception of Julian Tuwim's famous poem for children
"Locomotive;" the memoir of Leon Weliczker, a prisoner of the
Janowska concentration camp in Lvov and a member of the 'death
brigade' (Sonderkommando); the origins of Medallions by Zofia
Nalkowska, who 'processed' historical documents into literature and
contributed to the making of professor Rudolf Spanner's 'dark
legend,' and the textual origins of Tadeusz Rozewicz's 'poetry
after Auschwitz.' Furthermore, this volume addresses issues related
to the genesis and function of 'genocide literature' - aesthetic,
cognitive, ideological, and social. This volume will be a crucial
resource for academics interested in genocide and Holocaust
literary studies.
Censorship of Literature in Post-War Poland in the Light of
Confidential Bulletins for Censors from 1945 to 1956, reconstructs
and presents ways to censor literature (and, contextually, other
fields of art) submitted for evaluation to the main censorship
office in Poland during the first 11 years after WWII. The source
material consists of confidential Bulletins - periodicals addressed
to the officials of the censorship office. The book is divided into
three main parts, each preceded by an introduction and concluded
with an extensive bibliography. Part One: In Search of a
Definition: What Were the Confidential Bulletins for Censors?
Characteristics of the Source Material presents basic information
about the Bulletins - their goals, structure, and material
presented in them. The analysis concludes with the definition of
confidential Bulletins of the censorship office. Part Two:
Literature and Current Literary Phenomena Preconstructs the image
of literary life presented in the Bulletins from 1945 to 1956. On
numerous occasions, the Bulletins provided helpful guidelines in
censorship practice. They discussed the job of dealing with
literary texts and often gave examples of works published just a
few months earlier or those that had not passed the scrutiny. The
Bulletins published materials discussing literary phenomena and
other issues. The ones previously unaccounted for (including film,
radio and theatre), as well as the institutional background of
control, I discuss briefly in the last part - Camera Censorica.
What Else was Discussed in the Bulletins?. The materials presented
in these confidential periodicals came from the Bulletins
headquarters, field offices, and the work of censors. At the end of
my study, Author let the censors speak. In the chapter Before the
Proper Summary, or... the Censor as an Artist: The Literary Work of
the Functionaries of Mysia Street and Its Environs, Author cite
evidence of the literary ambitions of political functionaries - as
censors had been called in the 1950s.
The presented publication is a type of bibliographic dictionary,
compiled by an interdisciplinary team of authors (Byzantynists and
Paleoslavists), containing an overview of medieval texts referring
to the person of Muhammad, the Arabs, and the circumstances of the
birth of Islam, which were known in the Slavia Orthodoxa area
(especially in its eastern part, i.e. in Rus'). Therefore, it
presents the works written in the Church Slavic language between
the 9th and the mid-16th centuries. As the Old Rus' discourse on
Islam was shaped under the overwhelming influence of Byzantine
literature, the majority of the presented sources are Byzantine
texts from the 6th-14th centuries, translated into the literary
language of the Orthodox Slavs. The reader will also find here a
discussion on several relics, originally created in other languages
of the Christian East (Syriac, Arabic) and the West (Latin), which
- through the Greek - were assimilated on the Slavic ground. This
book aims to fill a gap in previous studies on inter-religious
polemics in the Middle Ages, which has usually focused on
Christian-Muslim cultural relations, analyzing Greek and Latin
texts or the works written in one of the Middle Eastern languages,
almost completely ignoring the Church Slavic heritage. It is worth
noting that a number of the texts presented here (as well as Slavic
translations of Byzantine sources) have not been published so far.
The information on them, provided in this monograph, is therefore
the result of research conducted directly on the manuscript
material.
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