Bolesław Prus i pozytywistyczne „porno z Murzynkami”

• Authors: Szleszyński Bartłomiej

Title variants

EN

Bolesław Prus and a Positivist “Porn with Negro Women”

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article begins with stating a fact that in Bolesław Prus’s "Kroniki" there are many fragments (especially those, in which black women occur), which sound so obscene that, according to contemporary standards, they could be considered pornographic. This lead to a conclusion that the conviction about an absolute prudery of the contemporary official circles and a current image of Bolesław Prus has to be modified. The next part of the article is devoted to an attempt to find the reasons why exactly this topic of African women provoked the author of "Kroniki" to come up with erotic fantasies (one of them was a belief in the moral inferiority of African inhabitants widespread in the 19th century), and also to more detailed analysis of the most characteristic fragments of "Kroniki" containing all these fantasies (embedding the image of women, created by its author, in the context of other colonial narratives).

Keywords

PL

Bolesław Prus; "Kroniki"; pornografia; fantazje erotyczne

EN

Bolesław Prus; "Kroniki"; pornography; erotic fantasies

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski / Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Napis. Pismo poświęcone literaturze okolicznościowej i użytkowej
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 155-173

Contributors

author

Szleszyński Bartłomiej

• Instytut Badań Literackich PAN