Aside word and memory. Narration about sexual violence towards women from East Prussia in Polish memory discourse after the 1945

• Authors: Szydłowska Joanna

Title variants

PL

Na uboczu słowa i pamięci. Narracja o przemocy seksualnej Rosjan wobec kobiet z Prus Wschodnich w polskim dyskursie pamięci po 1945 r.

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In this article, I will describe the strategy of silence and crossing the silence when it comes to sexual violence, which women from East Prussia experienced throughout several months between 1945 and 1947. I will investigate the language of this absence, I will look for the functions of this rhetoric and dysfunctional euphemisms. I will ask about the level of 'colonisation' of narration of violence. The analytical material will be journalistic texts, fiction and film narration.

Keywords

EN

sexual violence; women from East Prussia; Polish memory discourse after the 1945

• Publisher: Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach
• Journal: Anthropos?
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 25 Na uboczu
• Pages: 69-85

Contributors

author

Szydłowska Joanna