{"product_id":"the-kingdom-of-insignificance-joanna-nizynska-9780810128460","title":"The Kingdom of Insignificance: Miron Bialoszewski and the Quotidian, the Queer, and the Traumatic","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn one of the first scholarly book in English on Miron Bialoszewski (1922-1983), Joanna Niżyńska illuminates the elusive prose of one of the most compelling and challenging postwar Polish writers. Niżyńska's study, exemplary in its use of theoretical concepts, introduces English-language readers to a preeminent voice of Polish literature. Niżyńska explores how a fusion of seemingly irreconcilable qualities, such as the traumatic and the everyday, imbues Bialoszewski's writing with its idiosyncratic appeal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bialoszewski's \u003ci\u003eA Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising\u003c\/i\u003e (1977, revised 1991) describes the Poles' heroic struggle to liberate Warsaw from Nazi occupation in 1944 as harrowing yet ordinary. His later prose represents everyday life permeated by traces of the traumatic. Niżyńska closely examines the topic of autobiography and homosexuality, showing how Bialoszewski discloses his homosexuality but, paradoxically, renders it inconspicuous by hiding it in plain sight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanna Nizynska\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810128462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810128460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Joanna Nizynska","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086904078591,"sku":"9780810128460","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_24a9a559-5e9b-40b6-a894-4229ff373747.jpg?v=1769097236","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-kingdom-of-insignificance-joanna-nizynska-9780810128460","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}