Murderous Shame. Queer Performativity in „Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer“ by Witold Gombrowicz Cover Image
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Murderous Shame. Queer Performativity in „Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer“ by Witold Gombrowicz

Author(s): Błażej Warkocki
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Applied Linguistics, Sociology, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: queer; shame; masculinity; Witold Gombrowicz

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the short story ‘Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer’ from Witold Gombrowicz’s debut collection ‘Memoirs from a Time of Immaturity’ (later published under the title Bakakaj or Bacacay in the English translation). Warkocki reads this collection as a ‘memoir of negative affects;’ with the opening story being a story about shame. Drawing on Silvan Tomkins and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Warkocki suggests that shame is an affect that interpellates the identity of the outcast and the misfit. Thus the short story represents a particular instance of queer performativity.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 195-214
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Bulgarian