Dzieciństwo w labiryncie getta. Recepcja mitu labiryntu w polskiej literaturze dziecięcej o Zagładzie

Childhood in the Labyrinth of the Ghetto: Reception of the Labyrinth Myth in Polish Children’s Literature about the Holocaust

The book is an analysis of contemporary Polish Holocaust children's literature basing on the classical reception studies. It consists of description of the ancient labyrinth, presentation of the relationship between the labyrinth and the experience of the Holocaust and a nalysis of selected texts of Polish children's literature. The final part is a reflection on the relationship between the myth and the Holocaust and possible consequences of using classical archetypes in the story of the Holocaust.

Keywords: children’s literature, Holocaust, Shoah, reception studies, Greek mythology.

Mgr Krzysztof Rybak – is a PhD student and Research Assistant at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw. Member of the Research Laboratory of Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the University of Warsaw and the International Research Society for Children’s Literature at the International Youth Library in Munich fellow. Since 2021, he is con¬ducting a research project focused on children’s informational books, funded within the PRELUDIUM Grant of the National Science Centre, Poland (grant no. 2020/37/N/HS2/00312). He published the monograph Dzieciństwo w labiryncie getta. Recepcja mitu labiryntu w polskiej literaturze dziecięcej o Zagładzie [Childhood in the Labyrinth of the Ghetto: Reception of the Labyrinth Myth in Polish Children’s Literature about the Holocaust; WUW 2019] as well as articles in journals (among others, International Research in Children’s Literature, Libri & Liberi, and Filoteknos).