A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: Creative Nonfiction, Intimate Ethnography, and Ethnicity

• Authors: Napierkowski Thomas J.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

No study of national identity, race, or ethnicity is complete without a consideration of the literature penned by members of the group in question (descent literature) and of the treatment and image of the group in literature penned by outsiders. This essay examines a recently published book for the light it throws on the Polish experience of World War II, on the plight of Poles displaced after the War, on the immigrant experience, on Polish American ethnicity, and, perhaps even more significantly, for the opportunities of genre which it suggests for future scholarship and creative work on all these topics. The book to which I refer is A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps by Barbara Rylko-Bauer.

Keywords

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LITERATURE; IMMIGRANTS; ETHNICITY; POLISH AMERICANS; WORLD WAR II

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 4 (158)
• Pages: 271–281

Contributors

author

Napierkowski Thomas J.

• University of Colorado – Colorado Springs