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Review:”Remembering occupied Warsaw. Polish narratives of World War II”, Erica L.Tucker, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011. ISBN 9780875806556

  • Remembering Occupied Warsaw investigates ethnic Poles' memory of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw during World War II based on ethnographic fieldwork and life history interviews. Tucker conducted her research in Żoliborz during the late 1990s with follow-up visits over several summers through 2008. The author wrote on a historical topic, but the research methods are those of a cultural anthropologist: fieldwork, participant observation, and in-depth life interviews. By examining her respondents' narratives of the outbreak of war, the Nazi occupation and the postwar recovery of Warsaw, Tucker aims to find out how this past has shaped attitudes and actions in contemporary Poland and to explore the relationship between memory, narrative, trauma, and place. Her attention to the private experiences of the inhabitants of Warsaw will add to historians' knowledge and understanding of the occupation of the Polish capital. While the politics of wartime destruction are well-known, this book permits an understanding ofRemembering Occupied Warsaw investigates ethnic Poles' memory of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw during World War II based on ethnographic fieldwork and life history interviews. Tucker conducted her research in Żoliborz during the late 1990s with follow-up visits over several summers through 2008. The author wrote on a historical topic, but the research methods are those of a cultural anthropologist: fieldwork, participant observation, and in-depth life interviews. By examining her respondents' narratives of the outbreak of war, the Nazi occupation and the postwar recovery of Warsaw, Tucker aims to find out how this past has shaped attitudes and actions in contemporary Poland and to explore the relationship between memory, narrative, trauma, and place. Her attention to the private experiences of the inhabitants of Warsaw will add to historians' knowledge and understanding of the occupation of the Polish capital. While the politics of wartime destruction are well-known, this book permits an understanding of the occupation as an everyday phenomenon.show moreshow less

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Author:Izabela Kazejak
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7584
DOI:https://doi.org/10.11584/opus4-758
Editor:Joanna Wawrzyniak
Document Type:Review
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2020/08/08
Date of first Publication:2014/05/20
Publishing Institution:Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt
Creating Corporation:Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)
Release Date:2020/08/10
Institutes:Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Polenstudien
Licence (German):License LogoKeine Lizenz - es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht
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