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The classic study of the German social anthropologist is discussed in the context of different trends in “masculinity studies”. The reviewer demonstrates that “male fantasies,” analysed by Theweleit, are not solely a historical phenomenon, but nowadays – in a slightly modified form – can urge young men to (often dangerous) actions. Moreover, Theweleit’s book is also worth reading because throughout almost the whole previous century the Polish variant of masculinity has been referring to the hegemonic German masculinity as its antithesis.
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Chris Bradford’s Young Samurai series, and his more recent Bodyguard Series draw on a strong sense of hegemonic masculinity to secure popularity for the protagonist. The success of these books is particularly interesting when one considers the gender agendas that are embraced by modern western society and the extent to which general opinion has altered in terms of the performance of masculinity. According to John Stephens in Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children’s Literature and Film (2002, p. x), a problem for boys, both in narrative fictions and in the world, is that hegemonic masculinity ‘appears simultaneously to propose a schema for behaviour and to insist on their subordination as children, to conflate agency with hegemonic masculinity, and to disclose that, for them, such agency is illusory. These paradoxes are currently being increasingly dealt with as a theme in children’s literature and film’. My paper will discuss these apparent paradoxes in Chris Bradford’s novels in the context of a 21st century child readership.
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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.
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This article is devoted to the strategies of creations of masculinity used in the novel Bravery (pol. Męstwo) written by Bruno Jasieński. The article analyzes the ways in which patriarchate is presented in post-revolutionary social and gender relations as well as the strategies used for the creation of gender identity along with the social consequences of the revolutionary project of emancipation, which was abandoned in the USSR in the early 1930s. An important assumption of the study is also an attempt to establish the relation of this short prose to dominant fiction preserved by the poetics of socialist realism.
Porównania
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2013
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vol. 12
209-224
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The present text proposes a synthetic and multi-dimensional investigation and description of the impact of modernist and postmodernist strategies of the discourse of masculinity in conceptualization and introvertisation of the Ukrainian national-cultural identity created by the Ukrainian literature of the 20th century and early 21st century. The author of the this text, considers that masculinity in modern Ukrainian literature, defined as a transgressive type of critical self-awareness of the intellectual discourse – based on spiritual, as well as corporeal, values – is aimed at the conscious process of creating the postcolonial national character and postcolonial Ukrainian culture and literature, as well as securing the national instinct of self-defense. 
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Prezentowany tekst stanowi propozycję syntetycznego i wieloaspektowego zbadania i opisania wpływu modernistycznych i postmodernistycznych strategii dyskursu maskulinistycznego na konceptualizację i introwertyzację ukraińskiej tożsamości narodowo-kulturowej kreowanej na łamach literatury ukraińskiej XX – początku XXI wieku. Autorka artykułu uważa, iż maskulinizm w nowożytnej literaturze kraińskiej, rozumiany przez nią jako transgresyjny typ dyskursywnej krytycznej samoświadomości intelektualnej, bazującej zarówno na wartościach duchowych, jak i cielesnych, ukierunkowany jest na świadomy proces tworzenia postkolonialnego ukraińskiego charakteru narodowego oraz postkolonialnej ukraińskiej kultury i literatury narodowej, zabezpieczanych narodowym instynktem samoobrony.
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