Representations of the Gulag and Methods of Resistance: Romanian Detention Memoirs

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Camp Narratives in a Comparative Transnational Perspective 1
4. I: Comparing Camp Narratives: Theoretical Approaches
5. Towards a Literary History of Concentration Camps: Comparative or “Entangled”? 13
6. Worlds Apart? Cross-mapping Camp Literature from the Gulag and Nazi Concentration Camps 30
7. II: Defining Camp Literatures: Overview
8. Transcultural Memorial Forms in Post-Soviet Estonian Narratives of the Gulag 51
9. Representations of the Gulag and Methods of Resistance: Romanian Detention Memoirs 71
10. Polish Literature of Soviet Prison Camps: An Outline of Issues 88
11. Between the Sun and the Stone – The Naked Body: Yugoslav “Re-education” Camps in Literary Representations 106
12. Presence through Absence: The Aesthetics of Blank Space in French Holocaust Literature and Film 127
13. Konzentrationslager in Polish Literature: From Metaphorization to Metaphor 146
14. III: Witnessing and Remembering Camp Experiences: Comparative Case Studies
15. The Grey Zones of Witnessing: Levi, Améry, Shalamov 169
16. The Ghetto of Leningrad, the Siege of Theresienstadt: A Comparative Reading of Enforced Communities 190
17. Uncanny Contingencies: Translation, Comparison, and Compassion in Herta Müller’s The Hunger Angel 209
18. A Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology, and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and Budzyńska 231
19. Trauma Narration as Adventure Fiction: Ivan Bahrianyj’s Novel The Hunters and the Hunted 252
20. About the Authors 270
21. Index of Names 272
22. Index of Topics 279