The »Spectral Turn«
Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire
Over the last decades, studies on cultural memory have taken a »spectral turn« and have explored the potential of haunting metaphors for addressing past instances of violence that affect present cultural realities. This book contributes to the discussions on haunting by enquiring into its culturally and historically located modality: the emergence of the figure of the Jewish ghost in contemporary Polish popular culture, literature and critical art. Gathering contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, it locates this new interest in Jewish ghosts on the map of other Polish (and Jewish) ghostologies and seeks to explore their cultural and political functions in the Polish post-Holocaust imaginaire.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Content
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Introduction: Haunting in the Land of the Untraumatized
Seiten 7 - 48 -
On Behalf of the Dead: Mediumistic Writing on the Holocaust in Polish Literature
Seiten 49 - 64 -
Scratch, Groove, the Imprint of(Non)presence: On the Spectrologies of the Holocaust
Seiten 65 - 84 -
Sites That Haunt: Affects and Non-sites of Memory
Seiten 85 - 106 -
Healing by Haunting: On Jewish Ghosts, Symbolic Exorcism and Traumatic Surrealism
Seiten 107 - 130 -
Of Ghosts'(In)ability to Haunt: >Polish Dybbuks<
Seiten 131 - 184 -
Not Your House, not Your Flat: Jewish Ghosts in Poland and the Stolen Jewish Proprieties
Seiten 185 - 208 -
Philosemitic Violence
Seiten 209 - 262 -
Authors
Seiten 263 - 266
29 October 2019, 266 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3629-1
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