Description

• Title:
  “Birdless Sky”. On one of the topoi in Lager literature (and its fringes)
• Creator:
  Krupiński, Piotr
• Contributor:
  Associate Professor; Chair of 19th Century Polish Literature and Culture, Institute of Polish Studies and Culture Studies, Faculty of Philology, University of Szczecin;
  krupier10@wp.pl
• Description:
  The aim of the article is to indicate a recurring motif in the writings devoted to Nazi concentration camps. In many of the accounts of male and female internees the camp was described as a place “where birds did not sing”. As a territory over which there spun an empty silent sky. “A Birdless Sky”. The author of the study, utilising various sources, attempted to study the phenomenon from different perspectives. The results of scientific ornithological studies conducted by Günther Niethammer, a scientist and an SS guard at KL Auschwitz proved a rather unexpected point of reference for the voices of the internees. The presented article refers to the increasingly lively contemporary research into the topics of Lager and Holocaust literatures. Ecocriticism and environmentalism have been some of the more significant inspirations of the proposed discussion. By introducing a post-anthropocentric perspective, the author was able to expand the historical field to include non-human beings (animals, plants, landscapes).
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by Authors, Łódź 2017; © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2017
• Date:
  2018.05.18;
  2017
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica;8;
  46
• Subject:
  Lager literature;
  Nazi concentration camps;
  topoi studies;
  birds;
  animal studies
• Identifier:
  1505-9057;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24823 ;
  2353-1908;
  10.18778/1505-9057.46.08
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  image