Vol. 15 No. 1 (2020): Post Masculinity. Presentations: John Maxwell Coetzee

The issue’s main section is devoted to contemporary transformations of masculinity. Authors examine, among other topics, the way in which neo-television “constructs” new masculine identities; the representation of men in fantasy universes; what Polish culture has to offer men when it is read from the perspective of politicised versions of late psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis; and male initiation rites in gulags. In “Presentations”, we publish J.M. Coetzee’s speech given on the occasion of his receiving an honorary doctorate degree at The University of Silesia in Katowice, a heretofore unpublished interview with the Nobel Prize winner (in Marek Pawlicki’s translation) and an article discussing his work. In the “Varia” section, we publish observations on the work of Tadeusz Konwicki and Hans Christian Andersen, as well as a comparative analysis of the motif of bees in the poetry of Bolesław Leśmian and Leopold Staff.