Małe i kruche: „Ostatni świadkowie. Utwory solowe na głos dziecięcy” Swietłany Aleksijewicz jako historia II wojny światowej z perspektywy dziecka
Small and Fragile: Svetlana Alexievich’s „Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II” as a History of War from a Child’s Perspective
Author(s): Anna KarontaSubject(s): Constitutional Law, Civil Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Studies of Literature, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Russian Literature, Educational Psychology, Family and social welfare, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Svetlana Alexievich; „Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II”; child’s perspective; World War II; private/public
Summary/Abstract: The article offers an analysis of Svetlana Alexievich’s Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II as a history of war from a child’s perspective. Giving the voice to those whose childhood fell on wartime and occupation is a step towards discovering children’s wartime experience as well as a gesture against its ideologisation and politicisation. The protagonists’ memories assembled in the reportage allow us to recreate the children’s point of view about the aforementioned events, which usually remains omitted from the official historical discourse shaped in the USSR.
Journal: Rana. Literatura – Doświadczenie – Tożsamość
- Issue Year: 5/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 1-15
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish