TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wojciech Śmieja
PY  - 2026
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Hegemony and Trauma
T2  - Polish Literature and the Transformations of Masculinity
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1687023
N2  - An interdisciplinary and transdiscursive approach to describe Polish masculinities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book thoroughly rethinks the Polish literary studies in the context of various masculinities shaped in Polish culture over the last two centuries. Drawing on theoretical foundations from social sciences, psychoanalysis, and literary theory, Śmieja reveals how the dominant literary fiction of masculinity attempts to justify its claim to hegemony and domination by pointing to historical traumas. "A compelling interpretive narrative: masculinity in patriarchal societies emerges as a dominant yet deceptive fiction of the male world that ultimately produces historical traumas, eventually fracturing and distorting male identity."  – Prof. Tomasz Tomasik  "Śmieja’s book masterfully dissects masculinity as a fantasy formation, a myth, a fiction rather than a stable, symbolically dominant reality."  – Prof. Inga Iwasiów
KW  - Polish masculinity, Polish literature and culture, gender studies, cultural studies, queer
LA  - English
ER  -