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The Demon of Reconciliation. The Discourse on the Contemporary Righteous in Popular Novels
Marta Tomczok
marta.cuber@interia.pl Author Biographyauthor of publications on the cultural and literary contexts of the Holocaust. Recently published: Czy Polacy i Żydzi nienawidzą się nawzajem? Literatura jako mediacja (2019). Pamiętnik Literacki, Teksty Drugie”, Ruch Literacki, Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały. Editor-in-chief of "Narracje o Zagładzie". Works at the Institute of Literary Studies of the University of Silesia.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9512-007X
Institute of Polish Literature Research, Silesian University
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 12 (2016), Pages: 395-409
Submission Date: 2020-10-20Publication Date: 2016-11-30
https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.424
Abstract
The author analyzes depictions of the Righteous in several Polish popular novels and the accompanying discourse on rescuing. She proves that in popular fiction such depictions dominate over the reckoning discourse, connected with the Polish shared responsibility for the Holocaust. Tomczok analyzes the reasons for that dominance, referring to the Philo-Semitic violence category described by Elżbieta Janicka and Tomasz Żukowski. She devotes special attention to Maja Wolny’s novel Czarne liście and the controversy over the presentation of the pogrom in Kielce, and, first and foremost, this book’s dependence on the scholarly achievements of the scholars affiliated with the Center for Holocaust Research.
Keywords
popular fiction , the Righteous , rescuing , violence , Philo-Semitism , the Kielce pogrom , accursed soldiers
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