Is There No Free Love in the Houses Made of Concrete? Intimate Narratives in the People’s Republic of Poland
The article deals with the category of intimacy and the possibilities which it opens up in the study of communist culture. In the theoretical plan of the article, the author recapitulates the concepts of an intimate public sphere (L. Berlant), imperial policies of intimacy (A. L. Stoler) and selecte...
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| Định dạng: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Anglais |
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Teksty Drugie
2024
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Tóm tắt: | The article deals with the category of intimacy and the possibilities which it opens up in the study of communist culture. In the theoretical plan of the article, the author recapitulates the concepts of an intimate public sphere (L. Berlant), imperial policies of intimacy (A. L. Stoler) and selected cultural definitions of intimacy (I. Illouz, A. Giddens, M. Herzfeld). In turn, in the interpretive plan, the author characterizes selected intimacy narratives from the communist period: songs (M. Jakubowicz), reportages collected in the volume Who Loves Today... and selected films (A. Holland, B. Sass, A. Ford, W. Wiszniewski). The article shows how these narratives deconstruct the opposition of the public and the private, and further defines the socialized public sphere of the People’s Republic of Poland both as a space for the distribution of political meanings and the reproduction of oppression, and as a space for the construction of formulas of resistance and the denunciation of mechanisms of power. As a result, the article finally points to a category in intimacy that allows us to look at the People’s Republic of Poland beyond the dominant dominant (martyrdom-centric, anti-communist, male-centric, etc.) in Polish discourse. |
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