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On the Abuses in Research of the Holocaust Experience
Jacek Leociak
jleociak@gmail.com Biolecturer in the Institute of Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the Holocaust Literature Studies Department of the Institute, member of the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Recent works: (co-author with Barbara Engelking), The Warsaw Getto. A Guide to the Perished City (2009, Polish edition 2001), Doświadczenia graniczne. Studia o dwudziestowiecznych formach reprezentacji (2009), Ratowanie. Opowieści Polaków i Żydów, (2010)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1471-6926
Institite of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, 2010: Holocaust Studies and Materials, pages: 385-396
Publication date: 2010-11-30
Abstract
The abuses in the presentation of the Holocaust in art, film, and literature have been extensively studied in contemporary humanist studies. The analyses point to the phenomenon of the Holocaust’s McDonaldization, its political instrumentalization, ideological manipulation and commercialization. The article is an attempt at a critical examination of a different dimension of the phenomenon in question, hitherto overlooked, namely the abuses in Holocaust research. The author points at a number of dangers which appear in the academic Holocaust discourse – from the “source myth” to narcissistic temptations
Keywords
Holocaust research, postmodernist Holocaust discourse, threats and abuses in academic research
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