Published: 2020-11-22

A Solitary Man in the Space of Genocide

Paweł Tomczok Logo ORCID
Section: The Shoah and Other Genocides
https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2020.06.11

Abstract

In this essay, I discuss a particular narrative structure manifest in contemporary genocide narratives, a structure based on a distinctive presence of a first-person – usually male – narrator, who describes his experiences and reflections born in the course of his peregrinations to sites of mass extermination. Rooting my research in geocriticism, I explore ties between space
and memory, which allows me to distinguish several levels of analyzed texts, tending towards metaphysical generalizations of nihilistic or patriotic nature. I apply the said analytical categories to my study of selected passages of Dawid Szkoła’s and Przemysław Dakowicz’s respective essays.

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Tomczok, P. (2020). A Solitary Man in the Space of Genocide. Narracje O Zagładzie [Narrations of the Shoah], (6), 213–233. https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2020.06.11

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No. 6 (2020)
Published: 2020-11-23


ISSN: 2450-4424
eISSN: 2451-2133

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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