The article Bo d y and C end er in N a z i Concentration Camps is an attempt to discuss difficult issues of human sexuality and sexually marked behaviors in the context of the concentration camps, and their descriptions in the memoirs of the survivors. Using notions and concepts of the so called "black American feminism" the author (referring extensively to books by Stanisław Grzesiuk and Zofia Romanowiczowa) shows how in the concentration camp the human body became the only space of a relative privacy of the prisoner. At the same time the body becomes a territory on which all -both biological and socially constructed -human fates cross.

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Summary Teaching Polish literature in translation at the University in Vancouver constitutes for the author a point of departure for deliberations on the cultural history of Polish literature. Teaching students of various cultural backgrounds make the author realize the inadequacy of many notions of posteolonial discourses in reference to Polish culture. Despite entering into incessant dialogues with the culture of the so called West, Polish literature is nevertheless marginalized by the West; as such, imperialistic discourse does not constitute for it an appropriate reference in educational practices aimed at international students. Didactic solutions based on appeals to processes of familiarizing Poles with their own history and literature (and national values transmitted by them) despite the censorship of the Polish People’s Republic provide a guidance to study of (inter)relationships between literature, culture, and politics and their roles in building a national “structures of feelings”.

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