The aim of this paper is to point to the ways of narrating history in the reportages written after 1945 and concerned with the issues of land disinheritance, culture and language of people living in the Warmia and Masuria region, as well as, in the case of the Masurians, religion after the territorial changes which took place after the Second World War. A certain regularity can be noticed in these reportages. It consists in creating narration about the past and approaching present-day literature, with the authors acting as moralizers rather than merely as informers who present their knowledge of facts. This phenomenon could be observed just after the war, later in the times of the Polish People’s Republic, and can be observed nowadays when reporters want to revive a forgotten topic.
The book Is God Going to Forgive Nun Bernadetta by Justyna Kopińska, showing to the public the abnormalities and pathologies of functioning at the Special Education Centre of the Boromeuszki Nuns in Zabrze, will be the subject of our interest. We will be concerned with the techniques which allow us to put this text in the field of investigative journalism (such as facts management, the realization of compositional and stylistic assumptions, creating portraits of characters, and respecting ethical rules of journalism).
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