REPORTER JAKO TOWARZYSZ I JAKO ŚWIADEK – LITERATURA NON-FICTION WOBEC TAK ZWANEGO KRYZYSU UCHODŹCZEGO
REPORTER AS A COMPANION AND AS A WITNESS – NON-FICTION LITERATURE ON THE SO-CALLED REFUGEE CRISIS

Author(s): Piotr Jakubowski
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: refugee/migrant crisis; literary reportage; ethics of writing
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is a comparative reading of several reportages devoted to the so-called migrant/refugee crisis. By choosing the two figures, that is a companion and a witness, as two different types of the relationship between the journalist and his/her protagonists, the author tries to show how the participation in and the further representation of the refugees’ flight are strictly connected with the intervention – an urge to raise awareness of the migrant’s plight and to fight against growing hostile attitudes toward all kinds of Others – as well as how this engagement could lead to some kind of internal conversion on the reporter’s part.

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