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Revue: Romanica Silesiana

La desviación en la poesía de Leopoldo María Panero

Ewa Śmiłek

Langue: ES | Date de publication: | Résumé

Leopoldo María Panero is a modern Spanish poet and a member of the Novísimos group. Critics have often labeled him insane, transgressive and cursed. His mental illness, schizophrenia, makes him one of the most controversial Spanish poets and grants him a unique vision of reality. Culture and society generate and develop rules, limits and prohibitions which every member of a given society is obligated to obey. In Panero’s writing morality is likened to a constraint which the poet transgresses. This article concentrates on one of the most important issues in Panero’s writing, namely, transgressive sexuality (with its socially unacceptable forms, such as incest or necrophilia). What is more, by using the most significant ideas of Georges Bataille, Sigmund Freud or Antoni Kępiński, this paper ponders on whether madness is enough to

Key words: Leopoldo María Panero, modern Spanish poetry, sexuality, schizophrenia, transgression.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Los modelos de mujer y las sexualidades disidentes en las novelas de Lucía Etxebarria Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas y Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes

Marta Kobiela-Kwaśniewska

Langue: ES | Date de publication: | Résumé

The Women’s Models and Alternative Sexuality in the Novels of Lucía Etxebarria Love, Curiosity, Prozac and Doubts and Beatrice and the Heavenly Bodies

The main aim of this article is to present ways in which a controversial Spanish novelist, Lucía Etxebarria, expresses and subverts traditional social models and sexual identity of Spanish women at the end of the twentieth century by creation of female protagonists such as a promiscuouos girl, a workaholic executive or a housewife that tend to deconstruct socially normative conceptualizations of their roles and sexuality and they search for alternative constructions of feminine identity, both social and sexual one. It seems that a lesbian model of relationship is alternative to a monogamous compulsory heterosexuality.

Key words: Spanish feminine literature, women’s sexual identity, lesbian model, Lucía Etxebarria.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

« Le mythe du supermâle » : entre la France et le Maghreb dans La vie sexuelle d’un islamiste à Paris de Leïla Marouane

Magdalena Cebula

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

“The Myth of Supermale”: Between France and Maghreb in The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris by Leïla Marouane

Leïla Marouane is a maghrebian writer and feminist. The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris is her 5th novel. It is a story of a 40-year-old Maghrebian man born in Algeria who spent his life in France in a traditional Muslim family. The tensions between his country of origin and the host country appear at all levels. The protagonist cannnot combine his traditional side (associated with religion and family life), with his modern side (his work and desires). These contradictory elements constitute his identity, but his psyche is occupied by the question of sexuality. Contrary to the expectations of the reader, “sexual life of an Islamist in Paris” is virtually non-existent, at least for the hero. The dissonance between the title of the novel and the story of the protagonist’s life reveals its schizophrenia. The inability to realize that it is impossible to achieve this “myth of masculinity” can lead to mental disorders, as in the case of Marouane’s hero.

Key words: maghrebian literature, men’s studies, identity, sexuality, Islam.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

El homo sexualis latinoamericano de la época tardíomoderna La narrativa de Jaime Bayly

Ewelina Szymoniak

Langue: ES | Date de publication: | Résumé

The Latin American Homo Sexualis of High Modernity. Jaime Bayly’s Narrative Fiction

Jaime Bayly is one of the most controversial Hispanic-American writers of recent times. Both his provocative media image and his writings — which supposedly reffer to his personal experience — focus on gay themes. The aim of the present article is to show, by way of the work of literary scholars who engage in queer theory and sociologists who examine questions of sexuality, how certain changes in the sexual dimension of human life typical of societies of so-called high modernity (although with marked influences from Latin American culture), are reflected in th Peruvian’s writings. Situating Bayly’s novels in a broader literary and social context, the article attempts to shed light on the cultural construction of gender and sexuality.

Key words: (homo)sexuality, hypermasculinity, hegemony, identity.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Corpo femminile come strumento d’indagine nel romanzo Acciaio di Silvia Avallone

Małgorzata Puto

Langue: IT | Date de publication: | Résumé

Body Image as the Way to Express Femminity Acciaio by Silvia Avallone

The analyzed text puts a great emphasis on the human as physical beings in a physical world, in which body image is a meaningful and conscious way to express identity. The female identity includes concepts of self-esteem, self-perception, sexuality and social role and it can be challenging for a number of reasons. Body image can be a powerful way to fulfill the social expectations but it can also be very vulnerable because appearances change so much and cultural messages that fuel dissatisfaction can be very strong. Having a beautiful body can easily be linked to the concepts of success, sexuality, great expectations. Having ugly body can lead to emargination and struggling against the world that from the ancient times promotes the value of beauty in female.

Key words: body-conscious, identity, evolution, postmodernism.




Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Le purgatoire moderne ou la transgression revisitée : la valeur d’usage de Georges Bataille

Michał Krzykawski

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

The incentive for this essay was “Le retour de Sade” (“The Return of de Sade”), a play by Bernard Noël put on in Paris and Nancy in 2005. The play shows Marquis resurrected by Madame d’Avilla, in the orders of a woman pope who ascends St. Peter’s Throne. De Sade is highly convinced that his descent on the Earth results from his perfectibility in evil and is the proof of his post-mortem triumph. The pope, however, wants to engage him as a court jester because his books are no longer believed to be monstrosities that de Sade thinks they still are. The analysis of De Sade’s resurrection leads to a discussion of Bataille’s concept of eroticism seen as a transgressive act which dispels prohibitions without suppressing them. Referring to Bataille’s essay “The Use of Value of D.A.F de Sade” from 1930, this paper also tries to determine the position of Bataille — a classic French writer whose œuvre was published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, which is considered to be a major sign of recognition for an author in France — in contemporary western culture. The questions that this study attempts to answer are whether Bataille still plays the role of a transgressor and to what extent the transgressive value of Bataille’s eroticism is still attainable in the light of the Foucauldian concept of Power/Knowledge which is inherent in the discourse of sexuality.


Key words: Pornography, eroticism, sexuality, transgression.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Doctor doctor, please, oh, the mess I’m in : la figure paternelle et le père figurant en tant que signe identificateur du fils nazi dans Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell

Magdalena Łachacz

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

The article proposes a critical reading of the father figure in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones. While taking into account various interpretative contributions to the analysis of the
theme, formerly neglected and subjected to Julia Kristeva’s theory of abject mother, this article explores an alternative, esthetic, culturally oriented approach to the phenomenon. By grouping together father and a man who, in the absence of the former, takes power over the son, the story’s protagonist, the figure of the father can be understood as a key-symbol of a Nazi perpetrator’s identity. However, the article aims to show that this image can stem from the specific cultural context of contemporary representations of Nazism and influence today’s perception of the perpetrators.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Indocile Bodies: Bodily Transgressions in Selected Canadian Movies

Tomasz Sikora

Langue: EN | Date de publication: | Résumé

The article looks at the representations of corporeality, desire and transgression in selected films by David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin and Bruce LaBruce. The body acquires some kind of independence in these films, and the forces of excess that work in/though it (drives, desires) push the modern subject into various acts of transgression, thus threatening its propriety and stability. At a cultural level, this phenomenological instability of body- and self-boundaries may be linked to the Canadian sense of a “weak” national identity, rephrased by some as a positive case of “queer” nationality.

Key words: Body, desire, sexuality, transgression, excess, queer, Canadian cinema.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

La quête identitaire dans l’œuvre romanesque d’Ananda Devi

Anna Szkonter-Bochniak

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

This article examines three novels by Ananda Devi, a well‑known francophone novelist from Mauritius, the author of many novels, short stories and poetry books. In her novels, theauthor portrays the lives of women, the roles and norms that have been imposed on them, as well as their place in the conservative and patriarchal society in Mauritius and in India.

The protagonists of Pagli, Le Voile de Draupadi and Indian tango, whilst searching for their identity, rebel against the society, their families and religion which marginalise them and deny their right to make decisions about their own lives. The protagonists of Devi’s novels by objecting to such a lifestyle, by violating the social norms and breaching bans, discover their identity. Pagli symbolically rediscovers her true name, Anjali freedom and Subhadra her body/sexuality.

Key words: Ananda Devi, francophone novel, woman, identity, freedom, violation of social, religious and moral norms




Revue: Romanica Silesiana

L’image de la « belle Gitane » dans la littérature romantique allemande et française

Alice Le Trionnaire-Bolterauer

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

The Image of the “Beautiful Gypsy Woman” in German and French Literature of Romanticism

In my article I try to analyze the image of the “beautiful gypsy woman” on the basis of four literary texts from the period of Romanticism. The image, in fact, is an invention of the Romantic period, and is discussed here as the reflection of a changing female identity. Male authors respond to the demands of a new generation of women by creating new representations of femininity which, on the one hand, are fascinating and, on the other, quite threatening. The figure of the beautiful, but “foreign” woman is where these authors locate their dreams and fears.

Key words: Gypsy, Romantic literature, image of women, sexuality, emancipation.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Sexual Politics: Mapping the Body in Marguerite Duras’s L’Amant

Richard J. Gray II

Langue: EN | Date de publication: | Résumé

In L’Amant (1984), through the juxtaposition of traditional male/female sexual roles, Marguerite Duras painted a gynocentric portrait of sexual politics. By depicting a series of encounters in diverse parts of the Indochinese (Vietnam) landscape, Duras’s novel described the sexual “coming of age” story of her female protagonist’s. Each Vietnamese setting became a visual and sensory metaphor for the various developmental stages of the protagonist. In this essay, I contend that Duras’s use of contrasting settings serves to “flesh out” the sexual politics conveyed in the novel. Herein, I examine the geographic locations illustrating the sexual politics of the novel, including the Mekong River signifying the female protagonist’s rite of passage, Cholon, the city where the girl experiences sexual liberation and a struggle with the established authority, the lover’s apartment where the couple consummates their relationship, and finally, France representing the land of wealth to which the protagonist will eventually return.


Key words: autobiography, Judith Butler, Cholen (Cholon), colonisation, crossing, gender, juxtaposition, Marguerite Duras, Julia Kristeva, liberation, liminal space, mapping the body, Mekong, Kate Millett, Other, post-colonial, prostitution, sexploitation, sexuality, sexual politics.

In L’Amant (1984), through the juxtaposition of traditional male/female sexual roles, Marguerite Duras painted a gynocentric portrait of sexual politics. By depicting a series of encounters in diverse parts of the Indochinese (Vietnam) landscape, Duras’s novel described the sexual “coming of age” story of her female protagonist’s. Each Vietnamese setting became a visual and sensory metaphor for the various developmental stages of the protagonist. In this essay, I contend that Duras’s use of contrasting settings serves to “flesh out” the sexual politics conveyed in the novel. Herein, I examine the geographic locations illustrating the sexual politics of the novel, including the Mekong River signifying the female protagonist’s rite of passage, Cholon, the city where the girl experiences sexual liberation and a struggle with the established authority, the lover’s apartment where the couple consummates their relationship, and finally, France representing the land of wealth to which the protagonist will eventually return.


Key words: autobiography, Judith Butler, Cholen (Cholon), colonisation, crossing, gender, juxtaposition, Marguerite Duras, Julia Kristeva, liberation, liminal space, mapping the body, Mekong, Kate Millett, Other, post-colonial, prostitution, sexploitation, sexuality, sexual politics.

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