The Archive is Full! On the Queer Life of Adam Gawron in the Twentieth Century
The article analyzes the queer private archive of Adam Gawron, a person born in 1899 in one of the towns on the Radom–Dęblin railroad line. Gawron passed away at the age of ninety, leaving behind a collection of photographs and family documents. In 2021, the collections were handed over to the autho...
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| 發表在: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/td, |
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| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 語言: | Anglais |
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Teksty Drugie
2024
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | The article analyzes the queer private archive of Adam Gawron, a person born in 1899 in one of the towns on the Radom–Dęblin railroad line. Gawron passed away at the age of ninety, leaving behind a collection of photographs and family documents. In 2021, the collections were handed over to the author, who began the search to recover the protagonist’s biography. The starting point for the research was a series of photographs and several preserved negatives depicting men kissing. The author tries to outline a map of queer archives originating from private collections: the collections of those nearest and dearest, understood more broadly than just family. At the same time, the recorded biography of the protagonist is treated as one of the variants of a multi-faceted story, with the important role of the local community. In her biographical investigation, the author utilizes the protagonist’s collection, war archives, and the interviews she conducted with people who remember Adam Gawron. |
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