The »Spectral Turn«: Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire

✍ Scribed by Zuzanna Dziuban (editor)

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: Erinnerungskulturen / Memory Cultures; 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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