Reportaż polski jako głos tych, którym głos odebrano
Polish Reportage as the Voice of Those Whose Voice was Taken Away

Summary/Abstract: For a long time, literary reportage has been a popular element of the Polish literary scene, but after 1989 its roleand form changed: it turned out to be the voice of those whose voice had been taken away – we can consider thisthought to be the thesis of this study. For it to be constituted, readers are obviously needed. For without them,no one will hear the calls of these people. There is an interesting and important method (as well as possibledifferences between methods) used by the authors of the books which I have indicated. It is worth examiningwhether, at the level of the texts, in how the text is written, a given reportage is the voice of someone else.I distinguish the following categories of this type of reportage: reportage about victims of the system, reportagedevoted to representatives of Poland B, reportage about post-Soviet countries, reportage devoted to minorities.The situations discussed in the text may be considered discriminatory; besides, certain stereotypes are still presentin the public consciousness. The aim of the article is to show that contemporary Polish reportage, being the voiceof those whose voice has been taken away, can confront discrimination and stereotypes and play an important rolein overturning a particular taboo.

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