The Unheard

Images of the Marginalized Stranger Throughout Centuries

Ewa Tichoniuk-Wawrowicz, Małgorzata Karczewska

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847019329
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
• Index: Literature

Every person contains a degree of otherness, as identity is formed by social belonging. However, group solidarity can lead as well to exclusion, stigmatization, and even violence against those deemed different. They face trauma and contempt, suffering in silence that is engendered by shame or enforced by dominant communities and narratives, while the silence surrounding victimization further deepens the harm and isolation experienced by those affected. This volume brings together analyses examining past and present forms of marginalization related to various groups of excluded people. The essays it contains call for the recognition of those often ignored by society and attempt to give a voice to the unheared.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Ewa Tichoniuk-Wawrowicz / Malgorzata Karczewska (University of Zielona Góra): To Hear the Voiceless. Beyond Marginalization, Exclusion, Stigmatization
• Marginalization Throughout the Centuries
• Strangers in Their Own Country
• Sonia Maura Barillari (University of Genoa): The Fate of a Witch (a Brief Story of Marginality from a 13th-Century Provençal Text)
• Marco Francesco Dolermo (Liceo Guido Parodi, Acqui Terme): Walls Inside the Ghetto: A Jewish Family in Piedmont of the Ancient Regime Between Modernization and Marginalization
• Joanna Klara Teske (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin): The Rejected Other: Their Neglected Needs and Capacity for Caring in Stanislaw Szukalski’s The Mute Singer
• Iwona Filipczak (University of Zielona Góra): The Darker Other in the Land “White by Default”— Questions of Othering in Nikesh Shukla’s Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home
• Foreigners as Strangers
• Angelo Rella (University of Szczecin): Stories Remained Untold. The Great Emigration in the Italian Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century
• Diana Del Mastro (University of Szczecin): The Ships of Shame: The Deportations of Intellectuals and Political “Undesirables” from the United States of America and Soviet Russia to Europe in 1919 and 1922–1923
• Andrey Kotin (University of Zielona Góra): (Im)‍Perfect Strangers: The Image of a Foreigner in Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels Mary and The Gift
• Stigmatization, Language, Body
• Reclaiming the Right to Be Heard
• Urszula Majdańska-Wachowicz (University of Zielona Góra): Hearing the Unheard: A Linguistic Analysis of Breaking the Taboo Su rounding Child Sexual Abuse in Selected Song Lyrics
• Magdalena Lange-Henszke (University of Szczecin): Reclaiming One’s Own Voice. Incest as Social Exclusion in Christine Angot’s Work
• Language as a Weapon, Language as a Guide
• Małgorzata Łuczyk (University of Zielona Góra): Language of Exclusion: an Analysis of the Concepts понаехавшие and тожероссияне in the Context of Social Stigmatization
• Jolanta Osękowska-Sandecka (University of Zielona Góra): Making the Invisibility of Climate Migrants in the Polish Media Visile
• Marginalization and Body
• Sławomir Kuźnicki (University of Opole): “One Day I’ll Grow up, I’ll Be a Beautiful Woman”: Transformation of a Marginalized Body in Anohni’s Lyrics
• Paulina Korzeniewska (University of Zielona Góra) / Izaak Żebracki (independent scholar): Amplifying Marginalized Voices: Applying Glitch Feminism to the Work of David Cronenberg
• Adine Gavazzi (UNESCO Chair in Anthropology of Health. Biosphere and Healing Systems) / Gianluca Olcese (UNESCO Chair in Anthropology of Health. Biosphere and Healing Systems, University of Wroclaw) / Anna Siri (UNESCO Chair in Anthropology of Health. Biosphere and Healing Systems, Pegaso University, Naples): Body of Silence: Marginalized Health, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Dynamics of Otherness
• Biobibliographies