Veröffentlicht am: 2020-12-011

In the Shadow of Masks. Identity Problems in Crime Novels by Gaja Grzegorzewska

Olimpia Orządała

Abstract

The article focuses on presenting identity problems of the main protagonists in Gaja Grzegorzewska’s crime novels. The problems concern personal, gender, and sexual identity. The characters wear various masks, hiding their true “selves”. The paper presents homosexuality, bisexuality, androgyny and the deconstruction of stereotypical female and male characteristics. Finally, the article raises the problem of creating different masks and the constant identity changing among characters.

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Orządała, O. (2020). In the Shadow of Masks. Identity Problems in Crime Novels by Gaja Grzegorzewska. Prace Literaturoznawcze, (8), 245–257. Abgerufen von https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pl/article/view/6173

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