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IJLLL 2019 Vol.5(3): 168-175 ISSN: 2382-6282
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2019.5.3.222
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2019.5.3.222
Polish Futurism: Literature and Sexual Politics
Kasper Pfeifer
Abstract—The aim of this paper is to analyze the way in
which Polish futurists redefined Marinetti’s assumptions and to
study the projects of gender and power relations they
consequently put forward. The Italian futurist’s manifestos and
theories constituted a basis for further, more progressive
postulates proposed by the Polish futurists, including the
attempts of the latter to abolish patriarchy. The discourses
introduced by these postulates were focused on the future, and
were supposed to be the means of re-designing the habitus of the
semi-peripheral region, to use the terminology of the
world-systems theory. The purpose of Polish futurists was to
transfer the country and its culture from the semi-periphery to
the core – in other words, to get Poland out of a cultural and
economic obscurantism and move it towards the level of the
countries of Western Europe. The way in which one should thus
analyze the sexual politics of Polish futurism is to see it as a
chain of discourses revolving around the future and stemming
from artists’ dissatisfaction with the modernity of the periphery.
The analysis of texts and manifestos penned by the Polish
futurists conducted throughout the article reveals that one of
their main demands was to shift the dynamics of gender
relations, which was seen as a condition on which a veritable
modernity might exist. This eventually leads to the following
conclusion: the egalitarian project of a new gender hierarchy
devised by Polish futurism – although firmly rooted in the
phallogocentric gaze – should be considered as a bold proposal
of social change aimed at creating a new society and new gender
roles to be played in that society.
Index Terms—Literature, Bruno Jasieński, futurism, gender studies, sexual politics, world-system theory, semi-periphery countries.
Kasper Pfeifer is with University of Silesia, Faculty of Philology, Katowice (e-mail: pfeifer.kacper@gmail.com).
Index Terms—Literature, Bruno Jasieński, futurism, gender studies, sexual politics, world-system theory, semi-periphery countries.
Kasper Pfeifer is with University of Silesia, Faculty of Philology, Katowice (e-mail: pfeifer.kacper@gmail.com).
Cite: Kasper Pfeifer, "Polish Futurism: Literature and Sexual Politics," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 168-175, 2019.