Campo di Fiori, or Walls

Paweł JędrzejkoDepartment of American and Canadian StudiesInstitute of English Cultures and LiteraturesUniversity of Silesia in KatowicePoland Campo di Fiori, or WallsAbstract: The present editorial addresses the issue of separation walls as from an ethical standpoint. Walls, metaphorical and physical, offering those (temporarily) privileged protection from the realization of the uncomfortable fact that they stand by while others suffer and die, are supposedly to “keep us free,” although in fact they become a prison of an illusion of safety and a weapon that may sooner or later be used against those who pretend not to hear the noise of the ongoing battle “on the other side.” Keywords: American Studies, walls, Campo di Fiori, Czesław Miłosz, ethics, separation, isolation, editorial