Tożsamościowe (trans)lokacje bohaterów prozy Virginii Despentes na przykładzie powieści Apocalypse bébé
The Identity Trans(locations) of the protagonist of Virginia Despentes’ novels. Case study of Apocalypse bébé

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to investigate the contemporary creativity of the French, third wave feminist, and novel writer Virginie Despentes with a focus on changes taking place in her work over the last twenty years. The first part shows the scope of the early phase of her artistic activity, which, on the main level, deals with specific issues in the French culture of the last decade of the past century, especially those taking place in relation to the reconfiguration of the French literary field in the middle of the 1990s. Of particular importance are changes in approaches of those who were excluded or marginalized because of their race/gender/class position (most often femininists), including issues of self-representation and the appearance of the trash literature trend. The second part of the article takes as its goal enhancing the queer aspect of Despentes’ last project. It analyses Apocalypse bébé on the basis of geopoetical instrumentarium and presents information concerning the spatio-temporal dimensions of the (non)normative identities of the main characters. The authors construction of the urban chronotope of Paris and Barcelona is considered from a critical queer theory perspective, leading to the thesis of a specific utopian turn taking place in Despentes’ last novel.

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