Dear all,
In hope this book may be of interest to some people on the list. Even
though it is rooted in the specific context of the Holocaust debates, it
uses a cultural studies/cultural theory framework to talk about broader
issues of nationalism, reconciliation, politics and ethics.
Best,
Joanna
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New book from University of Nebraska Press (May 2007)
IMAGINARY NEIGHBORS: MEDIATING POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS AFTER THE
HOLOCAUST
edited by Dorota Glowacka (University of King’s College) and Joanna
Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London)
ISBN 978-0-8032-2217-5
http://unp.unl.edu/bookinfo/5146.html
Imaginary Neighbors offers a unique and significant contribution to the
contemporary debate concerning Holocaust memory by exploring the most
important current political topic in Poland: Jewish-Polish relations
during and after World War II. Drawing on the controversy and attention
generated by Jan Gross’s landmark book Neighbors, whose description of
the brutal Jedwabne massacre reignited the debate over Polish-Jewish
relations during the war, this timely volume presents a rich and nuanced
examination of the manner in which past and present relations between
Poles and Jews are understood in Poland and in the Polish and Jewish
diasporas.
Rather than revisiting historical details of Jedwabne, the book uses an
interdisciplinary approach to understand the reverberations of the
events—and the scholarship that has evolved around them—within the
context of the Polish national community. Combining scholarly essays
with literary and journalistic accounts, Imaginary Neighbors
demonstrates that the Holocaust memory in Poland, together with the
memory of Polish Jews and Jewish culture, continues to be engaged in
conflict. What emerges is a passionate conversation among cultural
critics, philosophers, literary theorists, historians, theologians, and
writers on the vexing issues of responsibility, forgiveness,
reconciliation, and national and religious identity.
Contributors include:
Janina Bauman, Zev Garber, Terri Ginsberg, Dorota Glowacka, Marita
Grimwood, Geoffrey Hartman, Eva Hoffman, Andrew Jakubowicz, Anne Karpf,
Erica Lehrer, Joanna B. Michlic, Alina Molisak, Ewa Plonowska-Ziarek,
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel, Joanna
Zylinska.
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Dr Joanna Zylinska
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK
My website: http://www.joannazylinska.net
Reviews Editor for Culture Machine: http://www.culturemachine.net
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