TY - JOUR
TI - “Living Voices, Living Fortunes”. Democratization of History in Reportages of Svetlana Alexievich and Malgorzata Rejmer
AU - Karonta, Anna
TI - “Living Voices, Living Fortunes”. Democratization of History in Reportages of Svetlana Alexievich and Malgorzata Rejmer
AB - 
	The article analyzes the causative, emancipatory potential of the reportage of testimony, which going beyond its reporting function becomes a new form of liberating the voices of the victims of communist regimes and „remémoration” of the past. Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets and Małgorzata Rejmer’s Mud Sweeter than Honey. Voices from Communist Albania generate a space for reckoning with undemocratic past where it becomes possible: to (re)interpret history and regain the experience of its participants, to face up to historical trauma as well as to bring the identity back to the subdued. The discussed reportages question the objectivity of history, a homogeneous vision of the past, and thus open up to the constant reinterpretation of historical events.
VL - 2021
IS - Issue 3 (49) 2021
PY - 2021
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 83
EP - 96
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.21.022.15037
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/zywe-glosy-zywe-losy-demokratyzacja-historii-w-reportazach-swietlany-aleksijewicz-i-malgorzaty-rejmer
KW - polyphonic reportage
KW - testimony
KW - historical trauma
KW - reckoning with the past.
KW - Svetlana Alexievich
KW - Małgorzata Rejmer