Published: 2019-12-31

New Life, or Pole Can (Could?) Do It

Piotr Jakubowski
Załącznik Kulturoznawczy
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2019.6.25

Abstract

The article is a discussion with Dionisios Sturis’ reportage book Nowe życie. Jak Polacy pomagali uchodźcom z Grecji (New Life. How Poles Were Helping the Greek Refugees), especially with the parts where Sturis draws a historical parallel between actions of Polish People Republic’s authorities from late 40s and early 50s – who decided to harbour the children, civilians and wounded partisans from Greek home war – and current ones, who refuse to accept the nowadays refugees from Africa and Middle East. While the author is aloof to the rhetoric which presents the former ones as a guiding light to the latter – as Sturis used to do – he still claims that the book could serve as a tool of empowering anti-xenophobic and inclusive ‘policy of hope’ (according to Rebecca Solnit’s notion).

Keywords:

Dionisios Sturis, reportage book, refugees, xenophobia, policy of hope

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Jakubowski, P. (2019). New Life, or Pole Can (Could?) Do It. Załącznik Kulturoznawczy, (6), 481–499. https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2019.6.25

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