Reading (in) the Holocaust. Malgorzata Wójcik-Dudek

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      21H 17 0260 85 (0260/NPRH6/85/2017).

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      ISSN 2364-1975

      ISBN 978-3-631-80862-7 (Print) ∙ E-ISBN 978-3-631-82292-0 (E-PDF)

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      DOI 10.3726/b17001

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      About the author

      Małgorzata Wójcik-Dudek (PhD) is a lecturer at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Her academic activities focus on the teaching of Polish literature at primary and high school levels, literature of children and young adults, and changes in cultural representations of the past in the Polish education.

      About the book

      The book deals with the issue of the Holocaust in the Polish literature for children and adolescents. Drawing upon some of the leading Polish authors of the twentieth and the twentieth-first centuries, the author reveals the historical, ideological, and cultural entanglement of their works. The main focus of the book is to search for reasons behind the outpouring of interest in the Holocaust noticed in the most recent Polish literature for younger readers. Among these reasons, the author lists the Polish local and historical context, the new approach to issues traditionally seen as taboo, the development of memory and postmemory narratives, and the postmodern shift from a discursive totality and universalist explanations.

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      Acknowledgements

      This book would not have been possible without the patience of many people. My special thank-you for the privilege of benefitting from this human virtue, which is less than self-evident in our times, goes to Professor Ewa Jaskółowa and Professor Sławomir Jacek Żurek, who kindly made time to read the book, discuss it with me and offer their generous comments. I am also deeply grateful to Professor Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich for her insightful scholarly editing and to Dr Patrycja Poniatowska for her painstaking work on the translation. Last, but not least, I thank my Loved Ones for their patience and support, which I felt daily when writing this book.

      Table of Contents

Chapter One Mount of Remembrance

The Predicament of Postmemory

Educational Practices vis-à-vis the Holocaust

The Polish School of Memory

The Ethical Challenge of Reading about the Holocaust at School, or on the Importance of Context

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The Faultlines of Memory

Chapter Two Jan Brzechwa’s Pan Kleks Series: An Alternative Reading

Games with Akademia pana Kleksa

Between the See-Saw and the Scaffold: 1946

Growing up, or “the Disenchantment of the World”?

An Academy or a Cheder?

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