It looks pretty from a distance : eco-memory and the vitality of Holocaust landscapes in Poland
It looks pretty from a distance : eco-memory and the vitality of Holocaust landscapes in Poland
Holocaust scholarship of the post-witness era has turned increasingly to environmental histories of the event as a means of implicating ecological sites and more-than-human lifeforms as powerful agents of memory. In this context, emergent concepts such as ecological memory and witnessing become useful paradigms for representing and remembering the Holocaust in places marked by the absence or erasure of human voices in particular. This article examines the role and representation of these concepts in Polish directors Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal's film It Looks Pretty from a Distance ( Z daleka widok jest piekny, 2011), in which ecological sites and landscapes bring the repressed local history of wartime Jewish murder and Catholic Polish collaboration to the surface of a provincial Polish community.
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Baker, Emily-Rose
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30 October 2023
Baker, Emily-Rose
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Baker, Emily-Rose
(2023)
It looks pretty from a distance : eco-memory and the vitality of Holocaust landscapes in Poland.
Environment, Space, Place, .
(doi:10.1353/spc.2023.a910010).
Abstract
Holocaust scholarship of the post-witness era has turned increasingly to environmental histories of the event as a means of implicating ecological sites and more-than-human lifeforms as powerful agents of memory. In this context, emergent concepts such as ecological memory and witnessing become useful paradigms for representing and remembering the Holocaust in places marked by the absence or erasure of human voices in particular. This article examines the role and representation of these concepts in Polish directors Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal's film It Looks Pretty from a Distance ( Z daleka widok jest piekny, 2011), in which ecological sites and landscapes bring the repressed local history of wartime Jewish murder and Catholic Polish collaboration to the surface of a provincial Polish community.
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Published date: 30 October 2023
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