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DOI 10.12887/35-2022-2-138-15



Joanna TARKOWSKA, The Jewish Universe and the Reminiscences of the Holocaust in Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory: Selected Aspects


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The article focuses on an analysis of cultural and literary elements which have shaped Maria Stepanova’s vision of her Jewish ancestors, incorporating motifs of the Holocaust, which—the writer claims—has affected also her own life. Thus she finds the category of postmemory as crucial to her narrative and to her perception of the world before the Holocaust as well as of the one that followed Shoah. In her novel, Stepanova refers to various texts culture, and the article aims at a possibly faithful reconstruction of her ideas by analyzing selected elements present in them which, on the one hand, reflect her attitude to her family and to the Holocaust and, on the other, point out to her rootedness in Marianne Hirsch’s research and in the accomplishments of various humanistic disciplines. Thus the considerations offer insights into nine selected categories recurring in Stepanova’s novel, i.e., (1) the memoir, (2) the family, (3) the things and the people, (4) the letters, (5) the postmemory and the Holocaust; (6) the cemetery, (7) the film, (8) the museum, and (9) the literature. An analysis of these categories makes it possible to approach Stepanova’s polyphonic narrative most comprehensively and to identify its rootedness in the ideas put forward by Susan Sontag, Marianne Hirsch, Hannah Arendt, Winifried G. Sebald, Rafael Goldchain, Francesca Woodman, and Joseph Cornell, among others.

Translated by Dorota Chabrajska

Keywords: the Jews, the Holocaust, epic narrative, things, postmemory

Contact: Katedra Literaturoznawstwa Słowiańskiego, Instytut Językoznawstwa i Literaturoznawstwa, Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4, 20-035 Lublin, Poland
E-mail: joanna.tarkowska@mail.umcs.pl
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  1. ISSN 0860-8024
  2. e-ISSN 2720-5355
  3. The Republic of Poland Ministry of Science and Higher Education Value: 100.00
  4. Quarterly “Ethos” is indexed by the following databases: EBSCO, CEEOL, Index Copernicus (ICV 2017: 55.26), Philosopher’s Index, ERIH Plus.
  5. DOI Prefix 10.12887