%0 Journal Article
%T The Fold and Queer. Nature as Homoerotic Scene
%A Ubertowska, Aleksandra
%J Wielogłos
%V 2018
%R 10.4467/2084395XWI.18.036.10200
%N Issue 4 (38) 2018: Studia nad męskościami – (re)interpretacje
%P 91-105
%K Queer theory, ecocriticism, borderlands, nature/culture
%@ 1897-1962
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/falda-i-queer-natura-jako-scena-homoerotyczna
%X 
	The aim of the text is the examination how the homosexual experience connected with natural spaces such as beach, park, dessert is reflected in diaries and novels by T.S. Lawrence, Witold Gombrowicz, and Michał Witkowski. The author comes to the conclusion that liminal spaces undermine the binaries „nature/culture”, „norm/anomie”, „primordial/fabricated”. Nature defined as „queerness” (the notion coined by C. Sandilands) seems in these works to play the role of counter-narrative of modern culture, establishing a different order of moral values and new, extended (non-anthropocentric) subjectivity that connects species within a set of interactions between plants, water, sand, climate factors.