'BOY' AND HOMOSEXUALITY. LITERATURE, THE LAW, AND THAT SCARING 'HOMOEROTIC' IN PERSON (Boy i homoseksualizm. Literatura, prawo i ten przerazajacy homoerota we wlasnej osobie)

• Authors: Smieja Wojciech
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This essay presents the place afforded to homosexuality by Tadeusz 'Boy' - Zelenski in his social and literary journalism. On the literary plane, whilst remaining apparently accepting toward homosexual themes, that author cast them away of the area of his interest. The proper place for such topics is, to his mind, trivial literature - romance or love story in the first place. The image of homosexuality and homosexuals in Boy's social commentaries is highly stereotypised. Although Boy postulates that homosexuality be depenalised, his texts are imbued with linguistic means creating a distance between the author and the topic of their utterance. The present essay is not intended to diminish Boy's role as a reformer of morals, it rather aims at defining certain nuances within this image.

Keywords

EN

BOY-ZELENSKI TADEUSZ; GENDER STUDIES; POLISH JOURNALISM (INTERWAR PERIOD). HOMOSEXUALITY; QUEER THEORY.

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 5(113)
• Pages: 64-74
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Smieja Wojciech

• Wojciech Smieja, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA056014