Review: Body. Gender. Concentration Camps

Abstract

The task of analyzing camp literature presents a particular set of challenges, the greatest of which is that it requires the scholar to occupy the positions of explorer and witness simultaneously. Such positionalities may at times become mutally exclusive when the ethics of witnessing clashes with the drive to explore. Božena Karwowska’s recent book Ciało. Seksualnosç. Obozy zagłady (Body. Gender. Concentration Camps), published in the Universitas series “Modernizm w Polsce,” exemplifies the tactful negotiation of ethical complexities and the analytical approach demanded by the book’s grueling subject matter.