W poszukiwaniu płci, seksualności i etyki w prozie polskiej
In Search of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethics in Polish Prose

Summary/Abstract: A review of Gender and Sexuality in Ethical Context: Ten Essays on Polish Prose, edited by Knut Andreas Grimstad and Ursula Phillips (Bergen: Dept. of Russian Studies, University of Bergen, 2005). The reviewer observes that the editors and authors of the book fulfilled their tasks outlined in the introduction, even though in some essays their planned descriptions of ethical programs of writers are not always clear. While discussing each essay, the reviewer looks at how Polish prose is analyzed with regard to the categories of gender and sexuality, the formulations of “maleness” and “femaleness,” the presentations of various sexual practices, and the strategies employed in the formation of sexual identity. The reviewer finds that the authors of this well-edited anthology examine Polish literature not from a narrow ideological perspective but through a broad lens of its thematic and formal problems, and against the background of European literary tradition.

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