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The Holocaust object in Polish and Polish-Jewish culture /

In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bozena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects -- pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils -- tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural tex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shallcross, Bożena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • On jouissance
  • A dandy and Jewish detritus
  • The material letter J
  • On waste and matter
  • Holocaust soap and the story of its production
  • The guilty afterlife of the soma
  • On contact
  • The manuscript lost in Warsaw
  • Things, touch, and detachment in Auschwitz
  • Coda: the post-Holocaust object.