Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival: Camp Literature in a Transnational Perspective

Contents\nIntroduction: Camp Narratives in a Comparative Transnational Perspective\nI: Comparing Camp Narratives: Theoretical Approaches\nTowards a Literary History of Concentration Camps: Comparative or “Entangled”?\nWorlds Apart? Cross-mapping Camp Literature from the Gulag and Nazi Concentration Camps\nII: Defining Camp Literatures: Overview\nTranscultural Memorial Forms in Post-Soviet Estonian Narratives of the Gulag\nRepresentations of the Gulag and Methods of Resistance: Romanian Detention Memoirs\nPolish Literature of Soviet Prison Camps: An Outline of Issues\nBetween the Sun and the Stone – The Naked Body: Yugoslav “Re-education” Camps in Literary Representations\nPresence through Absence: The Aesthetics of Blank Space in French Holocaust Literature and Film\nKonzentrationslager in Polish Literature: From Metaphorization to Metaphor\nIII: Witnessing and Remembering Camp Experiences: Comparative Case Studies\nThe Grey Zones of Witnessing: Levi, Améry, Shalamov\nThe Ghetto of Leningrad, the Siege of Theresienstadt: A Comparative Reading of Enforced Communities\nUncanny Contingencies: Translation, Comparison, and Compassion in Herta Müller’s The Hunger Angel\nA Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology, and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and Budzyńska\nTrauma Narration as Adventure Fiction: Ivan Bahrianyj’s Novel The Hunters and the Hunted\nAbout the Authors\nIndex of Names\nIndex of Topics