Description
Book SynopsisOver 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 ContentsIntroduction: 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; Authors.
