„Write as your ear hears it”: Text and pretext in the polyphonic reportages of Svetlana Alexievich
„Write as your ear hears it”: Text and pretext in the polyphonic reportages of Svetlana Alexievich
Author(s): Anna KarontaSubject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Alexievich Svetlana; polyphonic reportage; oral testimony; voice; tradition of collective singing
Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the process of incorporation of the witnesses’ verbal testimonies into the public sphere, of which polyphonic reportage is a part. This genre has become known mainly thanks to Svetlana Alexievich, whose works are based entirely on recorded conversations and interviews. Listening to the witnesses enables the reporter facing the dominant discourse of the past to reach out to others, the process of discovering and textualizing of which can be described with reference to the folk tradition of collective singing.
Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
- Issue Year: 64/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 277-298
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English