Chłopcy w za dużych mundurach. O męskich wspólnotach w wojennej prozie Józefa Czechowicza
Boys in Too Big Uniforms: Men’s Communities in Józef Czechowicz’s War Prose
Author(s): Jakub SkurtysSubject(s): Fiction, Military history, Social history, Gender history, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Józef Czechowicz; homosocial desire; men’s studies; war prose; communities in literature;
Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to present different modalities of men’s communities in Józef Czechowicz’s short prose texts, which were created many years after and on the basis of his experiences during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921. The author partly refers to Czechowicz’s biography and some memories of him, and also uses the concept of “homosocial desire” and Georges Bataille’s anthropologic theories. He aims to describe a wide spectrum of Czechowicz’s after-war fantasies about male bonds: brotherhood, fictional in-war family model (with a subconscious search for a symbolic Father), friendship and homoerotic partnership.
Journal: Wielogłos
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 38
- Page Range: 23-45
- Page Count: 23
- Language: Polish