Queerowanie intymistyki. Iwaszkiewicz, Zawieyski, Gide
Queering An Autobiography. Zawieyski, Iwaszkiewicz, Gide

Summary/Abstract: In the article the author describes diverse, textual strategies of Polish homosexual diaries from the 20th century. The author discusses the issue of their complex genetical relation to the founding texts of gay autobiography by André Gide and Oscar Wilde and he is pointing at resemblances and differences in the ways they construct the homosexual subjectivity. Basing on observations by Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Michel Foucault, the author is pointing at the performative contradiction of genres deduced from the autobiographical tradition of confessing in the situation of homosexual subject, and I am also reconstructing rules of textual visibilities of the homosexuality on the example of diaries of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Jerzy Zawieyski.

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