W cieniu masek. O problemach tożsamościowych w kryminałach Gai Grzegorzewskiej

• Authors: Orządała Olimpia

Title variants

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In the Shadow of Masks. Identity Problems in Crime Novels by Gaja Grzegorzewska

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on presenting identity problems of the main protagonists in Gaja Grzegorzewska’scrime novels. The problems concern personal, gender, and sexual identity. The characterswear various masks, hiding their true “selves”. The paper presents homosexuality, bisexuality, androgynyand the deconstruction of stereotypical female and male characteristics. Finally, the articleraises the problem of creating different masks and the constant identity changing among characters.

Keywords

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crime novel; Gaja Grzegorzewska; identity; mask; Polish prose

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 245-257

Contributors

author

Orządała Olimpia

Identifiers

DOI

DOI: 10.31648/pl.4888