Ostatni bastion. O męskich relacjach homospołecznych w "Senniku współczesnym" Tadeusza Konwickiego

The article presents an interpretation of A dreambook for our time by Tadeusz Konwicki in the context of cultural studies of masculine identity. Referring to the research conducted by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the author proves that ostentatious manifesting heterosexuality by the protagonists of Konwicki’s novel is the result of inability to define their identity within the masculine paradigm based on the soldier ethos.

Fuzzy, Messy, Icky

This chapter introduces a new approach to rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible, asserting that sexual violence and rape are frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky. Fuzzy identifies the ambiguity and confusion that often surround experiences of sexual violence. Messy describes the consequences of rape, while also describing messy sex and bodies. Icky points out the ways that sexual violence fails to fit into neat patterns of evil perpetrators and innocent victims. Taking seriously these features of sexual violence, the chapter also proposes four new interpretive tactics: refusing to claim a position of innocence (drawing on Donna Haraway’s work), resisting paranoid reading positions (borrowing from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick), tracing sticky affect (adapted from Sara Ahmed), and reading through literature. The chapter then applies these tactics to a rape text in Nahum 3.

Queer Theory

This chapter offers an account of central issues and themes in queer theory, with particular attention to the challenges it has posed to the concepts of normativity, identity, and the category of “woman.” It explores queer theory’s emergence from lesbian and gay studies, and considers its relation to feminist philosophy and trans theory. The chapter outlines the founding contributions of Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, along with several other influential queer theorists, and traces the concept of heteronormativity from its central place in queer theory’s earliest works to more recent reconsiderations.

Construcción sígnica de masculinidad y lazos de homosociabilidad en las historietas

Este artículo explora la puesta en página de historietas en las que los personajes masculinos entablan ―como nudo central en los relatos― lazos de homosociabilidad. Exploramos este concepto desarrollado por Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1985) que resulta productivo para analizar cómo se construyen modelos de género a partir de los vínculos entre personajes masculinos en las narrativas y en nuestro caso en una selección de historietas.

Etiology, Solitude, and Queer Incipience

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick spelled out reasons for queer theory to eschew the etiological questions that preoccupied early advocates of gay liberation: Etiologies of homosexuality are difficult, if not impossible, to insulate from a fantasy of eliminating gay people from the world. Sedgwick’s reparative account would seem, however, to have two objects at least nominally at odds: the proto-gay child in a state of suspension and the gayness that seeks to emerge from that potentiality, and, in emerging, to dissolve it. This chapter suggests that to dwell on queer origin might offer a way to sustain that “proto-gay” thread of potentiality, even within the actualization that makes it retrospectively legible. Carson McCullers’s Member of the Wedding, James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain, and Su Friedrich’s film Hide and Seek offer examples of narrating the “proto-gay” from within: maintaining a relation to gay futures while remaining true to a perspective that does not resolve its present confusions (and pleasures) with reference to that horizon. To tell of proto-gay kids is also to pose the question of inception; they embody what, could we see it, remains forever unformed within us, the potentiality that is the heritage of our beginnings.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and the difference geography makes

Ruez and Cockayne point out that queer theorist Eve Sedgwick’s reflections on paranoid and reparative readings accompanying one another came directly out of her queer political as well as textual practice in the U.S. Wrongly dismissed as mundane, this crucial contextualizing work is something geographers do especially well. Indeed, understanding the context for Sedgwick’s theories of paranoid and reparative reading is vital as we reflect on how her concepts travel across time and space.

#METOO IN POLISH THEATRE EDUCATION

This article discusses the #metoo movement in the Polish theatre. The author, referring to the thesis by Agnès Grossmann, notes that just like in the cinema, in which #metoo was initiated, the theatre reproduces images of women subjected to the male gaze. She then looks at how this problem of representation translates into the working conditions of women in the theatre. The paper presents the current state of research and actions regarding violence (including sexual violence) in theatres around the world. Applying these considerations to Poland, the author writes how this problem resonates with the situation of women in Poland. In the context of the theatre, the location of substantive and practical preparation for #metoo were theatre schools. Surveying events in the two most important and prestigious centres of theatre education, the author first makes a diagnosis of existing problems and then examines the process of combating them through the prism of Sarah Ahmed's concept of “walls” and the affective theory of paranoia and reparation according to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick