The kingdom of insignificance
Subtitle: Miron Białoszewski and the quotidian, the queer, and the traumatic
By: Joanna Niżyńska
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780810128460
Subjects: Psychic trauma in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Homosexuality in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction playing out life in the everyday: the quotidian, the queer, and the traumatic; title: "The glaring identity of 'now'": a memoir of the Warsaw uprising as a reenactment of the traumatic; title: Something more from almost nothing: the paradoxes of Białoszewski's life-writing; title: Miron at the margins, or can we queer Białoszewski?; title: Epilogue "ridiculous places" and queering memory: life-writing, history, and how we do not know.