Koniec męskości, albo Wiedźmina opisanie

• Authors: Dawid Matuszek

Title variants

EN

The End of Masculinity, or a Sketch of the Witcher

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In his article the author sketches a portrait of Geralt of Rivia, a title character of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series aw well as a video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, while at the same time tracing the work of deconstruction inscribed in the figure of the hero. Most significantly, it is Geralt’s gender identity that becomes subject to deconstruction; a model of heroic, fatherly, withdrawn masculinity becomes subverted and unseamed – on the one hand by female corporality; on the other, by female politics – which results in questioning and rejecting the so far dominant model in favour of subjectivity suspended between femininity and masculinity (and their other variants).

Keywords

PL

the Witcher; masculinity; gender; psychoanalysis; Sapkowski; Lacan

EN

the Witcher; masculinity; gender; psychoanalysis; Sapkowski; Lacan

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 185-200

Dates

published

2016-12-30

Contributors

author

Dawid Matuszek