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"In a powerful and immensely readable study, Holocaust scholar Bozena Karwowska examines memory-based literary works written in Polish during the early post-war period. Focusing on Auschwitz, she uses language, theory, and history, to examine various ""bodily"" aspects of the prisoners' lives and camp experiences. Beginning with the concept that the body was the only possession of the prisoners, she moves from specific texts to under-researched aspects of camp lives, illuminating them through a close reading of gendered literature, including prisoners accounts of sexual exploitation and sexual violence in the camp. The result is a fascinating piece of cutting-edge scholarship that uses a critical reexamination of forgotten texts to present the prisoners' body in Auschwitz as both situation and space, while simultaneously showing how survivors constituted themselves soon after liberation as witnesses."

"In a powerful and immensely readable study, Holocaust scholar Bozena Karwowska examines memory-based literary works written in Polish during the early post-war period. Focusing on Auschwitz, she uses language, theory, and history, to examine various ""bodily"" aspects of the prisoners' lives and camp experiences. Beginning with the concept that the body was the only possession of the prisoners, she moves from specific texts to under-researched aspects of camp lives, illuminating them through a close reading of gendered literature, including prisoners accounts of sexual exploitation and sexual violence in the camp. The result is a fascinating piece of cutting-edge scholarship that uses a critical reexamination of forgotten texts to present the prisoners' body in Auschwitz as both situation and space, while simultaneously showing how survivors constituted themselves soon after liberation as witnesses.--Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Bar Ilan University"

In a powerful and immensely readable study, Holocaust scholar Bozena Karwowska examines memory-based literary works written in Polish during the early post-war period. Focusing on Auschwitz, she uses language, theory, and history, to examine various ""bodily"" aspects of the prisoners' lives and camp experiences. Beginning with the concept that the body was the only possession of the prisoners, she moves from specific texts to under-researched aspects of camp lives, illuminating them through a close reading of gendered literature, including prisoners accounts of sexual exploitation and sexual violence in the camp. The result is a fascinating piece of cutting-edge scholarship that uses a critical reexamination of forgotten texts to present the prisoners' body in Auschwitz as both situation and space, while simultaneously showing how survivors constituted themselves soon after liberation as witnesses.

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Bozena Karwowska is professor in the department of Central, Eastern and Northern European studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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