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Comics and topica of the Holocaust
Krzysztof Lichtblau
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This article is an attempt to include comics into a broader field of research, namely into the topic of Holocaust. In this context, understanding of the topic is related to motifs recurring in this kind of writing. In his text, Sławomir Buryła has enumerated the following keywords: another world, smoke, silence, shmaltsovnik, torturer, selection, trains, Muslim etc. Their presence and functioning in Polish and foreign comics is discussed in the article. Additionally, the author focuses on another motif – photography – which is featured in comics on various different levels. It invokes the reality which is outside a text and, in a way, authenticates the vision presented by comics. The summary elaborates on the dangers of simplification which is characteristic for pop culture. Hence, the article is an attempt to answer the question posed by Giorgio Agamben: “What remains of Auschwitz?”
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comic, holocaust, cartoon, outline, pop cultureMost read articles by the same author(s)
- Krzysztof Lichtblau, The Traces of the Holocaust in Tadeusz Różewicz’s writings , Jewish Studies. Almanac: Vol. 8 No. 7-8 (2018)
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