The Politics of Literary Journalism in the New Poland

• Autores: Aleksandra Wiktorowska
• Localización: The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism / John S. Bak (ed. lit.), Bill Reynolds (ed. lit.), 2023, ISBN 978-0-367-35524-1, págs. 397-410
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter explores the politics of publishing that accompanied and shaped reportage writing in the new Poland after 1989. Just as censorship molded the genre during the country’s era of strident socialism, freedom of speech, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and years of capitalism played a significant role in bring Polish reportage into the twenty-first century. By outlining the most important historical moments in Polish reportage, the chapter shows how modern publishing policies and marketing strategies worked to shape this genre’s changed status. Inevitably tied to national politics at the local level or market politics on the global scale, Polish reportage has become a blurred genre, one that transcends the dividing lines between travel writing, the philosophical essay, biography, the short story, and historical nonfiction.