Krajobraz po bitwie. Narracje klęski plebiscytu 1920 roku w reportażach Melchiora Wańkowicza i Leona Sobocińskiego
A Landscape after the Battle. Narratives of the 1920 Plebiscite’s Defeat in the Reports by Melchior Wańkowicz and Leon Sobociński
Author(s): Joanna SzydłowskaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: reportage; the plebiscite in Warmia; Mazury and Powiśle; 20th century
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the ways of presenting the problem of the 1920 pleb-iscite’s defeat in the Polish reports by Melchior Wańkowicz and Leon Sobociński. It attempts to show the indicators of change in the interpretation of this event during the decade filled with the censorship of World War II in the reportages of these authors. It describes how the Polish narratives tried to neutralize the situation of defeat and what lessons were learned from it. This paper asks questions about the dramaturgical potential of this experience of defeat and the mechanisms of both remembering it and erasing it from memory.
Journal: Prace Literaturoznawcze
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 9
- Page Range: 249-273
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Polish