Description

• Title:
  Essay as the Autobiographical Heresy
• Creator:
  Tomczok, Marta
• Contributor:
  University of Silesia;
  martacuber@interia.pl
• Description:
  This article discusses the special kind of Holocaust essay which, on the one hand, remains in opposition to academic texts and, on the other, is a text which resembles an autobiography, and which reveals its author’s personal engagement in the discussed problem. By analysing Jan Tomasz Gross’ study titled Ten jest z ojczyzny mojej..., ale go nie lubię and its consecutive printed versions, the author of this article discusses the benefit of engaging in essay-writing for the scholar, who fluctuates between the academic and non-academic discourses. To this end, she also discusses other Polish Holocaust essays published in the mid-1980s (by, e.g., Jan Błoński and Roman Zimand) and the theory of the essay by Theodor W. Adorno, which triggered Gross’ formal and notional search.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2021.04.06;
  2019.12.30
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze;8
• Subject:
  essay;
  Holocuast;
  antisemitism in Poland
• Identifier:
  2299-7458;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/34985 ;
  2449-8386;
  10.18778/2299-7458.08.15
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image