Precarious belonging
Blindness, masculinity, and work in Polish young adult literature of the 1970s and 1980s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9641679 |
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| Authors | Natalia Pamula (0000-0003-3399-805X, Center for Disability Studies, University at Buffalo (SUNY, Buffalo), Buffalo, NY, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 186-202 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Slavonic Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-5006 • E-ISSN: 2375-2475 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00085006.2019.1596515 |
| OpenAlex | W2940886850 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article explores the relationship between disability, identity, and productivity in two Polish young adult novels published under state socialism: Jak trudno kochać (How difficult it is to love) and Spotkania (The meetings). How Difficult it is to Love by Jerzy Szczygieł (1976) tells the story of a young blind man who, after living many years “unproductively” with his mother, decides to study and work. Published in 1986, Klementyna Sołonowicz-Olbrychska’s novel The Meetings also focuses on a blind male teenager who leaves his hometown to live with other blind students at a residential school where he plans a future profession. The two works are concerned with the processes of becoming disabled and becoming a part of the blind community. Crucially, it is productivity – the main value in a socialist state – that participates in the formation of disability identity and enables disabled men to form separate communities and workshops for disabled people
Aesthetics · Art · Blindness · Economic growth · Identity (music · Masculinity · Political science · Productivity · Socialism · Sociology · State (computer science · Value (mathematics · Work (physics · Central European Literary Studies · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies · Psychology · Optometry
| Highly cited | No |
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