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A Piece of Fedora Cake: The Male-Centric Imagination of Jerzy Andrzejewski and the Scholarly Reconnaissance
A Piece of Fedora Cake: The Male-Centric Imagination of Jerzy Andrzejewski and the Scholarly Reconnaissance

Author(s): Wojciech Śmieja
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Social Norms / Social Control, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Summary/Abstract: In this article Śmieja suggests that Jerzy Andrzejewski’s male-centred imagination is rooted in the writer’s homoerotic desire. By imagining relationships between men that take place outside of the Oedipal model, Andrzejewski’s works threaten both the social order and the coherence of the subject himself. In order to stabilize his male-centred vision on a textual level, Śmieja argues, Andrzejewski draws on the model developed by Witold Gombrowicz, while on a biographical level it is Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński who fulfils this stabilizing function.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 179-199
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: English