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- Title
Spiral Coercion: Nazi Power and Family Authority in Charlotte Salomon's Autobiographical Work Life? Or Theatre?
- Authors
Karagianni, Eleftheria
- Abstract
Life? or Theatre? is a visual-theatrical, textual, and auto-biographical play of Charlotte Salomon, a Jewish talented artist, executed at a very young age in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In this paper, I consider Salomon's work a document of life, and a testimony of her personal intra-familial, and personal experience of "the before--Auschwitz" (Jenn-Gastal 228) depicting, among others, historical and socio-political facts articulated and expressed through narrative and painting. Since in Sociology life stories or autobiographical narratives constitute a valuable tool, I will employ Salomon's drawings, captions and texts as a "synergetic fusing of social sciences and the arts" (Bagley 34), in order to shed ample light on her reconstructed lived experience. This research aims at examining Salomon's autobiographical work from a sociological and philosophical perspective, referring to the views of great theorists, such as Hannah Arendt, Zygmunt Bauman, and the founders of the Frankfurt School, who tried to explain the origins of totalitarianism, power relations and the causes of the Holocaust.
- Subjects
SALOMON, Charlotte; JEWISH artists; CONCENTRATION camps; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; FRANKFURT school of sociology; TOTALITARIANISM
- Publication
HyperCultura, 2022, Vol 11, p2
- ISSN
2285-2115
- Publication type
Article