„Nie nazywaj mnie pedałem” – homofobia i homohisteria w prozie Serhija Żadana
(“Don’t Call Me a Faggot” – Homophobia and Homohysteria in Serhiy Zhadan’s Prose

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present the homophobic and homohysteric discourse in Serhiy Zhadan’sprose. Adopting the perspective of the pro-feminist men and masculinities studies and researchingthe discourse on masculinity in Zhadan’s fiction enables the author to present men in the period oftransformation of the last twenty-five years and show the gradual changes in the dominant attitudetowards gays. Although it is difficult to treat Zhadan’s fiction as a full compendium of knowledgeon the state of Ukrainian homophobia, the author claims that it contains images of masculinityand relationships between men that are accurate literary representations of the changes currentlytaking place in Ukraine.

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