Homosexual Reverse Catastrophe. The Men with the Pink Triangleand Damned Strong Love
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RIS BIB ENDNOTEHomoseksualna katastrofa wsteczna: Mężczyźni z różowym trójkątem i Cholernie mocna miłość
Publication date: 03.2022
Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2022, Issue 1 (51) „Kulturowe praktyki współczesności”, pp. 20 - 38
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.22.002.15747Authors
Homoseksualna katastrofa wsteczna: Mężczyźni z różowym trójkątem i Cholernie mocna miłość
Homosexual Reverse Catastrophe. The Men with the Pink Triangleand Damned Strong Love
The article offers in-depth, critical analysis of the books The Men With The Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger and Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. and Stefan K. by Lutz van Dijk, touching upon the topic of Nazi persecutions of homosexuals. Both texts are being presented as matrix testimonies, which not only widened the Second World War discourse by introducing the homosexual victim, but also initiated homosexual variant of what Przemysław Czapliński’s called the “reverse catastrophe”. Although concentrating precisely on male war-time experience, the texts significantly exceed the dominant, male-centered narrative pattern. By discussing the issues such as ambiguous authorship, differences between narrative strategies, brutalization of the language and the authors’ attitudes towards body, sexuality or violence, the article demonstrates—thus far seldomly considered—“catastrophic potential” of the publications. Attention is also being drawn to the fact that by virtue of their existence, homosexual war-time experience no longer has to be considered—to use Sławomir Buryła’s term—“non-verbalizable”.
Information: Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2022, Issue 1 (51) „Kulturowe praktyki współczesności”, pp. 20 - 38
Article type: Original article
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Homoseksualna katastrofa wsteczna: Mężczyźni z różowym trójkątem i Cholernie mocna miłość
Homosexual Reverse Catastrophe. The Men with the Pink Triangleand Damned Strong Love
Jagiellonian University, Doctoral School in the Humanities
Poland
Published at: 03.2022
Article status: Open
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND
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