Argentinian Dissident Masculinities as Queer Smmugled Dynamite in Witold Gombrowicz’s Trans-Atlántico

Abstract

A queer reading of Witold Gombrowicz’s Trans-Atlantyk (1953), paying special attention to the novel’s most iconoclastic aspects for the Polish culture. It analyses the construction of Gonzalo, a homosexual character whose non-normative masculinity is contrasted by Gombrowicz with Polish hegemonic masculinities. The role of the Argentinean dissident masculinities, as well as the importance of Gonzalo’s queerness for the interpretation of Trans-Atlantyk are examined through the lens of both Polish and Argentinean queer criticism.

Keywords

• Witold Gombrowicz
• Argentine and Polish Literatures
• Queer Studies
• 20th Century
• Argentina
• Poland