Published: 2022-06-03

Small and Fragile: Svetlana Alexievich’s "Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II" as a History of War from a Child’s Perspective

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Section: Explorations and Autopsies
https://doi.org/10.31261/Rana.2022.5.05

Abstract

The article offers an analysis of Svetlana Alexievich’s Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II as a history of war from a child’s perspective. Giving the voice to those whose childhood fell on wartime and occupation is a step towards discovering children’s wartime experience as well as a gesture against its ideologisation and politicisation. The protagonists’ memories assembled in the reportage allow us to recreate the children’s point of view about the aforementioned events, which usually remains omitted from the official historical discourse shaped in the USSR.

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Karonta, A. (2022) “Small and Fragile: Svetlana Alexievich’s ‘Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II’ as a History of War from a Child’s Perspective”, Rana. Literatura - Doświadczenie - Tożsamość [Wound. Literature – Experience – Identity], (1 (5), pp. 1–15. doi: 10.31261/Rana.2022.5.05.

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No. 1 (5) (2022)
Published: 2023-03-01


eISSN: 2719-5767
Ikona DOI 10.31261/rana

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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