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This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in
which the Holocaust occurred. It inspects the category of the
bystander (in Polish culture closely related to the witness), since
the war recognized as the axis of self-presentation and majority
politics of memory. The category is of performative character since
it defines the roles of event participants, assumes passivity of
the non-Jewish environment, and alienates the exterminated, thus
making it impossible to speak about the bystanders' violence at the
border between the ghetto and the 'Aryan' side. Bystanders were
neither passive nor distanced; rather, they participated and played
important roles in Nazi plans. Starting with the war, the authors
analyze the functions of this category in the Polish discourse of
memory through following its changing forms and showing links with
social practices organizing the collective memory. Despite being
often critiqued, this point of dispute about Polish memory rarely
belongs to mainstream culture. It also blocks the memory of Polish
violence against Jews. The book is intended for students and
researchers interested in memory studies, the history of the
Holocaust, the memory of genocide, and the war and postwar cultures
of Poland and Eastern Europe.
This book discusses the direction of changes in contemporary
culture at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries in Poland on the
example of mutual relationships between literature and the media,
such as film, radio, TV and the Internet. The interdisciplinary
approach adopted by the author combines literary and media studies
with the perspectives of social communication, anthropology and
sociology of culture. The book focuses on topics such as
reconfiguration of culture, expansion of the media, situation of
literature and the central place of audio-visual parallels (auteur
film, TV series, PC games). The author notes that both literature
and the media are situated between art and communication today and
both share the meta-cultural role of natural languages.
This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in
which the Holocaust occurred. It inspects the category of the
bystander (in Polish culture closely related to the witness), since
the war recognized as the axis of self-presentation and majority
politics of memory. The category is of performative character since
it defines the roles of event participants, assumes passivity of
the non-Jewish environment, and alienates the exterminated, thus
making it impossible to speak about the bystanders' violence at the
border between the ghetto and the 'Aryan' side. Bystanders were
neither passive nor distanced; rather, they participated and played
important roles in Nazi plans. Starting with the war, the authors
analyze the functions of this category in the Polish discourse of
memory through following its changing forms and showing links with
social practices organizing the collective memory. Despite being
often critiqued, this point of dispute about Polish memory rarely
belongs to mainstream culture. It also blocks the memory of Polish
violence against Jews. The book is intended for students and
researchers interested in memory studies, the history of the
Holocaust, the memory of genocide, and the war and postwar cultures
of Poland and Eastern Europe.
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