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BL
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626018
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Shallcross, Bożena
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| Title & Author
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The Holocaust object in Polish and Polish-Jewish culture\ Bożena Shallcross
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| Publication Statement
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Bloomington :: Indiana University Press,, c2011
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1 online resource (181 p.)
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| ISBN
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9780253005090
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: 0253005094
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9780253355645
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0253355648
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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On jouissance -- A dandy and Jewish detritus -- The material letter J -- On waste and matter -- Holocaust soap and the story of its production -- The guilty afterlife of the soma -- On contact -- The manuscript lost in Warsaw -- Things, touch, and detachment in Auschwitz -- Coda: the post-Holocaust object
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| Abstract
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In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bozena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects -- pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils -- tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts. Shallcross delineates the ways in which Holocaust objects are represented in Polish and Polish-Jewish texts written during or shortly after World War II. These representational strategies are distilled from
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Polish literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Polish literature-- Jewish authors-- History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-- Poland
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Reality in literature
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PG7035.J48S53 2011eb
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