Building the visibility of non-heteronormative people in the collective memory can be illustrated by the example of literary biographies Cover Image

Budowanie widoczności osób nieheteronormatywnych w pamięci społecznej na przykładzie biografii literackich
Building the visibility of non-heteronormative people in the collective memory can be illustrated by the example of literary biographies

Author(s): Jakub Krasny
Subject(s): Gender history, Polish Literature, Hermeneutics
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: non-heteronormativity; queer studies; collective memory; biographies;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to explore two aspects of the visibility of non-heteronormativity in biographies--their absence and attempts to assign them new interpretations through reframing. The study employed a hermeneutic approach to frame analysis. The research corpus comprised 15 biographies of Maria Konopnicka, Maria Rodziewiczówna, Karol Szymanowski, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Maria Dąbrowska, and Witold Gombrowicz, published after 1990. The analysis identified "falsifying" strategies: framing non-heteronormative relationships as friendships, omitting non-heteronormative themes, and accumulation, as well as strategies for reframing non-heteronormativity: placing it in a historical frame, linking it to liberalization of intimacy, and presenting as a field of possibilities.

  • Issue Year: 8/2026
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 61-84
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish
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