Thirty Tons of Polish, Polish Queer Literature
Abstract
This article is a review of the book Dezorientacje: Antologia polskiej literatury queer [Disorientations: An Anthology of Polish Queer Literature] (Warsaw 2020). The author discusses the ideological premises of the volume and presents its contents, commenting in particular on the selection of excerpts from theater texts. He points out that the methodology of queer studies is used here in a somewhat anachronistic way, narrowed down to the analysis of models of (homo)sexuality. Appreciating the editors’ efforts and emphasizing the need for such initiatives in Polish culture, he suggests minor shifts in the approach to minority literature, which could help deconstruct the traditional ways of establishing the history of literature and culture.
Keywords:
identity, queer, sexuality, non-normativity, history of literatureReferences
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Authors
Grzegorz StępniakPoland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5765-3657
Author of the book Sztuka życia inaczej. Ustanawianie queerowego czasu i przestrzeni [The Art of Living Differently. Establishing Queer Time and Space, 2017]. He defended his doctorate on queer approaches to time and space in relation to the human life cycle in American performance and independent cinema. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh, at the School of Theatre, Film and Television at UCLA in Los Angeles and at the American and Ethnicity Studies Department at the University of Southern California, under the direction of Judith 'Jack' Halberstam. Three-time scholarship holder of the Japanese SYLFF Foundation and the Minister of Higher Education. He publishes constantly, among others in: Notatnik Teatralny, Didaskalia, Fragile and dwutygodnik.com. He collaborated with the Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Krakow, the Boska Comedy International Theatre Festival. He is a co-author of the text and dramaturgy (together with Jolanta Janiczak) Dead Girls Wanted. He is the Main Programmer MasterCard OFF CAMERA of the International Independent Cinema Festival.
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