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Anna
Author_Anna Kuchta
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- ISBN 9783631912072
- Weight: 504g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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The book thoroughly explores postmemory in the Polish historical and political contexts to reveal the multidimensional identity strategies of the second generation of Jews in Poland after the Holocaust, also called the "generation after". Kuchta provides a captivating reflection by focusing on transgenerational transmission of trauma, strategies adapted toward the Holocaust legacy, and ways of constructing Polish-Jewish identity projects in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book comparatively analyzes literary works by the "generation after" while considering the influence of postmemory on the identity of people born after the Second World War. To that end, Kuchta analyzes autobiographical threads in texts by six Polish writers born in the 1940s and 1950s into families of Holocaust survivors, whose works can be read as identity declarations, namely Ewa Kuryluk, Bożena Keff, Roman Gren, Magdalena Tulli, Agata Tuszyńska, and Monika Sznajderman.
Anna Kuchta is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations at the Jagiellonian University. Her research interests include postmemory, trauma, and tracing relations between literature and culture.
