BRATERSKIE STRATEGIE OPORU
Fraternal Strategies of Resistance

Author(s): Adriana Kovacheva
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: People’s Republic of Bulgaria; political dimensions of epistolography; homosocial; resistance movement
Summary/Abstract: The article aims to characterize a homosocial Polish-Bulgarian group formed by the Polish writer Wilhelm Mach on the basis of numerous letters left by its members. It is argued here that long-lasting correspondence between friends and brothers helped them exist in a highly homophobic political and social environment. Their writing practices are analyzed as paradoxical strategies of both resistance to systemic oppression and subordination to political power.

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