The Space of Community in the Projects of the Laboratory of Reportage
The Space of Community in the Projects of the Laboratory of Reportage

Author(s): Krzysztof Muszyński
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Laboratory of Reportage; community; geopoetics; polyphony; Mikhail Bakhtin
Summary/Abstract: The author undertakes a reflection upon the notion of a community by analysing three books inspired by the "Laboratory of Reportage": Karolina Apiecionek’s Mundial ’74. Dogrywka (1974 World Cup. Extra Time), Jakub Kulawczuk’s Czas zatrzymany (Suspended Time) and Kinga Grafa, Marta Mazus, Władysław Rybinski and Marta Wójcik’s Wyspa Montrésor (Montrésor Island). The author points at formal similarities of analysed works and, through the close reading of the texts, defines places around which the community gathers and splits. In the first place, the topics of the above-mentioned books are discussed along with the modalities of narrative construction, dramaturgy and differentiation of language taking place in all three polyphonic reportages. The reflection, which is to be located on the border between literary studies, sociology and geography – just as the Laboratory of Reportage’s methods are borderline – is inspired by Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory and, primarily, by Elżbieta Rybicka’s Geopoetyka (Geopoetics).

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