Ofiara, zły chłopiec, błazen, marzyciel, mnich i wybawiciel – archetypiczne postaci mężczyzn w prozie Krzysztofa Niewrzędy, Dariusza Muszera, Leszka Oświęcimskiego i innych pisarzy emigracyjnych polskiego pochodzenia

Abstract

The so called emigrantion literature is a topic, which has commanded growing interest within literary studies during the last years. In German-Polish research, we see terms shifting from “migrant literature”, towards more open formulations such as “Polish literature on the move” (Ottmar Ettes, 2001). The article focuses on this very mobility of identities. The article examines autobiographically inspired novels by Krzysztof Niewrzęda, Leszek Oświęcimski and Dariusz Muszer. They immigrated to Germany during the 1980s, which means they have been part of the last migration wave before the 1989 transitions. The article examines, with recourse to intercultural German studies and psychoanalytic insights, archetypical masculinity models in the literature by the above mentioned authors (the victim, the bad boy, the fool, the monk and the saviour).

Keywords

• migration of Polish authors before 1989
• male archetypes
• male identity crisis
• literary strategies of overcoming
• migration trauma