Bruno Jasieński’s Bravery. Gender Equality in the USSR and Socialist Realism in Prose Cover Image

Męstwo Brunona Jasieńskiego. Polityka płciowa w ZSRR a proza socrealistyczna
Bruno Jasieński’s Bravery. Gender Equality in the USSR and Socialist Realism in Prose

Author(s): Kasper Pfeifer
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: gender studies; masculinity studies; socialist realism; Bruno Jasieński; October Revolution

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the strategies of creations of masculinity used in the novel ravery (pol. Męstwo) written by Bruno Jasieński. The article analyzes the ways in which patriarchate is presented in post-revolutionary social and gender relations as well as the strategies used for the creation of gender identity along with the social consequences of the revolutionary project of emancipation, which was abandoned in the USSR in the early 1930s. An important assumption of the study is also an attempt to establish the relation of this short prose to dominant fiction preserved by the poetics of socialist realism.

  • Issue Year: 61/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 9-21
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish