Female queer gothic and feminine monstrosity discourse. “Alma” by Izabela Filipiak

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  • Piotr Sobolczyk Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, Pracownia Poetyki Historycznej, Warszawa image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2299-7458.04.03

Keywords:

gothic, feminine monstrosity, gnosis, maternity, queer gothic

Abstract

The article proposes an interpretations of Izabela Filipiak’s little-known novel Alma (2003) in the context of queer female gothic and the “feminine monstrosity” discourse inspired by Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. The author disagrees with Filipiak’s metathematic genological remark that the novel represents cyberpunk, while pointing to numerous points of convergence with the book “Skin Shows” by Judith Halberstam. The second part of the article analyses gnostic references in Filipiak’s novel, which is a feminist rewriting of “Hymn of the Pearl”. A separate paragraph is devoted to theoretical determination of the general relationship between the gothic and gnosis.

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Author Biography

Piotr Sobolczyk, Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, Pracownia Poetyki Historycznej, Warszawa

dr, pracownik IBL PAN. Obszary badań: literatura polska i hiszpańska XX i XXI wieku; teoria queer; gotycyzm; kamp; psychoanaliza; teoria recepcji; analiza dyskursu. Najważniejsze publikacje: „Tadeusza Micińskiego podróż do Hiszpanii” (2005), „Dyskursywizowanie Białoszewskiego. Teoria recepcji i recepcja krytycznoliteracka” (2013), „Dyskursywizowanie Białoszewskiego. Dyskursy literaturoznawstwa naukowego i szkolnego” (2014), „Queerowe subwersje. Polska literatura homotekstualna i zmiana społeczna” (2015); „Polish Queer Modernism” (2015).

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Published

2015-01-01

How to Cite

Sobolczyk, P. (2015). Female queer gothic and feminine monstrosity discourse. “Alma” by Izabela Filipiak. Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze, (4), 29–50. https://doi.org/10.18778/2299-7458.04.03

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No. 4 (2015)

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