QUEERING THE WARSAW UPRISING (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MIRON BIALOSZEWSKI)
Journal Title: Studia Humanistyczne AGH - Year 2015, Vol 14, Issue 2
Abstract
The essay calls for filling a gap in the studies on Warsaw Uprising concerning the place of queer people. A recent play, Snakepit by Joanna Oparek is considered, and the “scandal” surrounding Elżbieta Janicka’s academic work Festing Warschau is analysed, but the main source of understanding non-normative masculinities and sexualities is Miron Białoszewski’s Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising. The author offers a “paranoid” reading of traces, suggestions, allusions, and “illogical” fragments to build a working metaphor of queer acquaintances as an alternative “map” without the map. Finally he invokes the role of the picaresque narrative convention in representing such paranoid queer relationships. Keywords: Warsaw Uprising, queer, Polish history, Miron Białoszewski, Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising
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Piotr Sobolczyk
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- DOI 10.7494/human.2015.14.2.193
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