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The »Spectral Turn«

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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 cu...
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  • 27 November 2019
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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.
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Price: $35.00
Pages: 266
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 27 November 2019
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837636291
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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»Der Mehrwert des Sammelbandes liegt darin, dass er die Ambivalenz aufzeigt, mit der das polnisch-jüdische Verhältnis noch immer betrachtet wird.«
Zuzanna Dziuban (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and Freie University of Berlin. Her research focus is on memory studies, dead body studies, and the afterlives of the Holocaust.

Frontmatter 1
Content 5
Introduction: Haunting in the Land of the Untraumatized 7
On Behalf of the Dead: Mediumistic Writing on the Holocaust in Polish Literature 49
Scratch, Groove, the Imprint of(Non)presence: On the Spectrologies of the Holocaust 65
Sites That Haunt: Affects and Non-sites of Memory 85
Healing by Haunting: On Jewish Ghosts, Symbolic Exorcism and Traumatic Surrealism 107
Of Ghosts'(In)ability to Haunt: >Polish Dybbuks< 131
Not Your House, not Your Flat: Jewish Ghosts in Poland and the Stolen Jewish Proprieties 185
Philosemitic Violence 209
Authors 263