Reportażowe reprezentacje pamięci w tomie Michała Olszewskiego „Najlepsze buty na świecie”

• Authors: Magdalena Piechota

Title variants

EN

Reportage representations of memory in Michał Olszewski's "Najlepsze buty na świecie" [The best shoes in the world]

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article analyses how reportage creates representations of individual and shared memories as well as official and private memories, as described by Michał Olszewski in his volume “The Best Shoes in the World”. Another topic covered in the book and investigated in this article is the mechanisms of memory repression brought about by events of the Second World War. The most important topics and problems incorporated in Olszewski’s book are the erosion of memories of experiences during and after the war; the reasons for, and mechanisms of, this erosion; self-reflection on how memories determine our heritage; and the hiding and falsification of historical facts such as greed and collaboration. An important element of Olszewski’s narrative is how the past is commercialised in performances by reconstruction groups.

Keywords

PL

representations of memory; reportage; World War II

EN

representations of memory; reportage; World War II

• Publisher: Instytut Polonistyki i Kulturoznawstwa Uniwersytetu Opolskiego
• Journal: Stylistyka
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 28
• Pages: 109-129

Dates

published

2019-12-18

Contributors

author

Magdalena Piechota

Identifiers

DOI

10.25167/Stylistyka28.2019.8