APPROACHING EMOTIONAL DEFICITS THROUGH THE LENS OF EPIGENETICS. THE SENSORY SUBLIMATION OF TRAUMA IN ANNA WIŚNIEWSKA-GRABARCZYK’S PORZECZKOWY JOSEF

• Authors: Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec

Title variants

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APPROACHING EMOTIONAL DEFICITS THROUGH THE LENS OF EPIGENETICS. THE SENSORY SUBLIMATION OF TRAUMA IN ANNA WIŚNIEWSKA-GRABARCZYK’S PORZECZKOWY JOSEF / Zmysłowa sublimacja traumy w powieści Porzeczkowy Josef Anny Wiśniewskiej-Grabarczyk. Deficyty emocjona

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The article examines Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk’s Porzeczkowy Josef (Currant Josef), which was nominated for the 2019 Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award, from the epigenetic perspective. The novel tells a story of coping with the difficult memories of a concentration camp. Those experiences and the anxiety that they produce were ‘inherited’ by the granddaughter from her grandmother. In the suppressed memories, love merges with hatred and the victim’s attachment to the perpetrator – with shame. As the article argues, what plays an important role in coping with this trauma are richly described sensory impressions (scents, flavours, tactile impressions).

Keywords

EN

Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk; literature and memory; postmemory; epigenetics; Shoah

PL

Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk; literatura a pamięć; postpamięć; epigenetyka; Shoah

• Publisher: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe, Stowarzyszenie
• Journal: Prace Polonistyczne
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 75

Dates

published

2019-04-28

Contributors

author

Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec

Identifiers

DOI

10.26485/PP/2020/75/8