Fałda i queer. Natura jako scena homoerotyczna
The Fold and Queer: Nature as a Homoerotic Scene

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the text is to examine how the homosexual experience connected with natural spaces such as a beach, park, or dessert, is reflected in diaries and novels by T.E. Lawrence, Witold Gombrowicz, and Michał Witkowski. The author comes to the conclusion that liminal spaces undermine the binaries “nature/culture,” “norm/anomie,” and “primordial/fabricated.” In these works, nature defined as “queerness” (the notion coined by C. Mortimer-Sandilands) seems to play the role of a counter-narrative of modern culture, establishing a different order of moral values and a new, extended (non-anthropocentric) subjectivity that connects species within a set of interactions between plants, water, sand, and climate factors.

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