The Visual Space of Postmemory. The Poetics of Secondary Testimony in Tadeusz Różewicz's Nożyk profesora in Tadeusz Różewicz’s nożyk profesora (professor’s little knife)
2013
Abstract
This essay discusses the problem of postmemory and secondary testimony, including their visual and textual manifestations in Tadeusz Różewicz’s late poem nożyk profesora (2001). The essay deals with theoretical background of the concept of postmemory (according to Marianne Hirsch and Dori Laub) in its psychoanalytical and aesthetical aspects.
It focuses on the experimental style and composition of Różewicz’s poem which combines visual (3 photographs) and textual (or, more precise, intertextual) means of expression to articulate a multilayered and polyphonic secondary Holocaust testimony.