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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tomasz Basiuk (University of Warsaw) , Jędrzej Burszta (Affiliated Faculty Member at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.181kg ISBN: 9780367563363ISBN 10: 0367563363 Pages: 146 Publication Date: 29 April 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction: queers in the People’s Republic of Poland: an uneven landscape Part 1: Socialities and their literary models 2. Three circles of male homosexual life in state-socialist Poland 3. One’s younger self in personal testimony and literary translation 4. “Transgression has become a fact”: a Gothic genealogy of queerness in the People’s Republic of Poland 5. Queens and faggots, Petites Folles et Pédales: representation of Communist-era Polish queers in translations of Lubiewo ( Lovetown ) Part 2: Expert discourses 6. Diagnosing transsexualism, diagnosing society: the blurred genres of Polish sexology in the 1970s and 1980s 7. “Treatment is possible and effective?”: Polish sexologists and queers in correspondence in late state socialism 8. “No authorities are interested in us, no one interferes in our affairs?”: policing homosexual men in the People’s Republic of Poland Part 3: Queer intelligibility and unintelligibility 9. “No one talked about it”: the paradoxes of lesbian identity in pre-1989 Poland 10. Queer (in)visibility in the art of the People’s Republic of PolandReviewsAuthor Information"Tomasz Basiuk is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw. He authored Exposures: American Gay Men’s Life Writing since Stonewall (2013), a monograph on the novelist William Gaddis (published in Polish in 2003); co-edited, with Dominika Ferens and Tomasz Sikora, three volumes of essays on queer studies: Odmiany odmieńca/A Queer Mixture (2002), Parametry pożądania (2006), and Out Here (2006); guest-edited a special journal issue on gender and sexuality (Dialogue and Universalism XX.5–6, 2010); and co-edited, with Krystyna Mazur and Sylwia Kuźma-Marowska, The American Uses of History. Essays on Public Memory (2011). He is the co-founder of the online queer studies journal InterAlia (since 2006), a former Fulbright visiting scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Research Fellow at Indiana University at Bloomington. Basiuk served as Principal Investigator in the HERA-funded ""Cruising the 1970s. Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures."" Jędrzej Burszta holds a PhD in cultural studies from the SWPS University in Warsaw (2019). He is Affiliated Faculty Member at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. His research interests include ethnography, queer theory, American speculative fiction, and popular culture. In 2015, together with Zuzanna Grębecka, he authored an ethnography of personal memories of the Soviet Army stationing in Legnica during state socialism in Poland, entitled Mówiono ""druga Moskwa."" Wspomnienia legniczan o stacjonowaniu Armii Radzieckiej w latach 1945–1993 (They Called it ""Little Moscow."" Memories of Soviet Army Stationing in Legnica in the Years 1945–1933). He is also a novelist and writes for the theatre." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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