Queerowanie historii
Queering the history

Summary/Abstract: The dominating strands of historiographical writing on non-normative sexual behaviors and relations are based on a need to identify historical ancestors of contemporary minority groups. This assumption is most often essentialist and defines identity as a stable, immutable, an almost biological entity. Drawing attention to the critique of historical writing (Hayden White), queer theory (Elizabeth Freeman, David Halperin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick), and Michel Foucalt’s well-known theses on the history of sexuality, this article aims at uncovering the anachronistic character of the above described model and proposing a new non-normative history of non-normative sexual behaviors and relations. This new model will be analyzed with regard to literary and artistic works (Michał Witkowski, Karol Radziszewski).

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