QUEERING THE WARSAW UPRISING (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MIRON BIALOSZEWSKI)
QUEERING THE WARSAW UPRISING (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MIRON BIALOSZEWSKI)

Summary/Abstract: The essay calls for lling 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 Festung 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.

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