Transpłciowość w poezji. Wytwarzanie podmiotowości nienormatywnych
Transness in Poetry. The Production of Non-Normative Subjectivities

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary Polish poetry conceptualizes transgender subjectivity as a distinct and analytically productive category. It is visible particularly within the framework of gender studies in literary scholarship. The works of authors who challenge normative gender discourse examined here represent an attempt to develop a language capable of articulating transgender experience while simultaneously transcending traditional interpretive models (e.g. theories centered on the “female subject”). These literary strategies elude the psychoanalytic paradigms deeply embedded in Western thought, including the nature/culture dichotomy, the concept of libido and phallogocentrism. At the core of this inquiry lies the experience of being “imprisoned” by the Polish language, whose grammatical and semantic structures reproduce binary gender categories. The poetry also critiques gender roles imposed through processes of socialization . Moreover, “transgender poetry” exposes the mechanisms of medicalization and essentialization that regulate the biological dimension of human existence.

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