Abstract
Beginning with Milo Rau’s theatrical version of Piero Paolo Pasolini’s Salo, or: 120 Days of Sodom of1975, Dorota Sajewska presents a brief history of the media discourse around abortion in Poland. Recalling, for instance, the homilies of John Paul II, she proves that abortion became a major stake in the struggle for the Church’s real power in Poland. Sajewska largely focuses on the role the film Silent Scream played in the debate on anti-abortion regulations, showing various aspects of its dissemination. Seeing Silent Scream as a primary image of anti-abortion discourse in Poland after 1989, she reconstructs an archeology of abortion trauma.
Sajewska, Dorota