Description
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of twentieth century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents readings of well-known authors such as Witold Gombrowicz or of authors gaining international fame such as Miron Białoszewski, as well as essays on other important, but less known Polish writers. The book also offers theoretical ideas relevant outside the Polish context: the idea of «homoinfluence», the «enigmatic signifier» and its role in «paranoid cultures», the overlapping of Jewishness and queer, the discussion of queer fables for children, or the new approach to the idea of «camp» and its relation to commodity fetishism.
Table of ContentsContents: Sexual Fingerprint: Queer Diaries and the Enigmatic Signifier (Iwaszkiewicz, Andrzejewski, Gombrowicz, Białoszewski) – Julian Stryjkowski: Jewish vis-a-vis Queer – Two Psychoanalytic Scenarios in Witold Gombrowicz – Queering the Warsaw Uprising (With a Little Help From Miron Białoszewski) – Straight Yet Queer: Homoinfluence (Jerzy Andrzejewski, Czesław Miłosz), Straight Gay Story (Krzysztof Baczyński), Queer Fable (
Academy of Mr. Kleks), Between Materiality and Symbolicalness of Skin (Sławomir Mrożek) – Central European Communist Camp.
