„Spóźniony, zakłopotany spadkobierca”. Męskie inicjacje w cieniu łagru, purgi, totemicznej krwi

• Authors: Aleksandra Ubertowska

Title variants

EN

“A Late, Embarrassed Descendant”. Male Initiations in the Shadow of a Gulag Camp, Purga, and Totemic Blood

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

What this article attempts to gauge are the possibilities stemming from combining two methodologies: masculinity studies (as a part of gender studies) and ecocriticism/environmental studies. The material for the analysis is the novel by Sergei Lebedev, Oblivion. The author of the article reconstructs the hegemonic pattern of male initiation present in the novel and related with post-communist inheritance of Grandfather II, one of the novel’s characters. Overcoming the imposed pattern of masculinity (authoritative, totalitarian) takes a form of journey into subarctic Russia and seeking the traces of gulag camps. Climate-related factors play a significant role in this process: motifs of Purga, of permafrost, and endemic plant species of Ural and Syberia.

Keywords

PL

Sergei Lebedev; ecocriticism; masculinity studies; gulag literature

EN

Sergei Lebedev; ecocriticism; masculinity studies; gulag literature

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2020-06-26

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Ubertowska

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/SSP.2020.15.05