@ARTICLE{Slany_Katarzyna_A_2018,
 author={Slany, Katarzyna},
 number={No 4 (349)},
 journal={Ruch Literacki},
 pages={441-456},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2018},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka},
 publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki},
 abstract={In post-humanist studies of identity, otherness and exclusion – conducted within the de-anthropocentrism of the humanities – questions arise about the condition of non-human subjects (animals, plants, things) that gain the cultural and social status of Others. As non-human entities, they have a socializing value, cement interpersonal relations, attract people to certain places. They have performative, integrative and co-creating abilities. The posthumanistic “turn towards things” opens the room for the construction of their social (auto) biographies, a development which already has been taking place in contemporary children’s literature. The problem of the creation of (auto)biographies of non-human subjects is presented in this article on the example of the picture book Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear by Tomi Ungerer. The artist gives the non-anthropomorphized plush toy the status of a non-human subject and an active actor of social life as a medium of unoffi cial memory of the Holocaust. Ungerer consciously and innovatively uses the key determinants of the posthuman discourse, including intimate childhood experiences.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={A toy as a medium of Holocaust remembrance: The case of “Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear” by Tomi Ungerer},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/106982/PDF/RL%204-18%206-Slany.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/122716},
 keywords={Children’s literature, 20th-century German literature, Holocaust remembrance, picture book, post-humanist narrative, non-human (auto)biography, Jean-Thomas “Tomi” Ungerer (b. 1931)},
}