American Wild Zones: Space, Experience, Consciousness

ISBN-13: 9783631659588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 368 str.

Jerzy Kamionowski;Jacek Partyka

Opis

The contributors understand the wild zone as denoting the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.) which is/was marginalized in American society. Reaching far beyond the boundaries of original agenda (Edwin Ardener s and Elaine Showalter s), the term s applicability has been significantly enlarged. Its fluidity or fuzziness, however, ought to be taken as a blessing: in the rapidly changing contemporary (-liquid-) world it is the language that needs to keep up with new circumstances and developments, not the other way round."

Spis treści

Contents: Marek Wilczynski: Introduction: Moving Wild Zones - Aneta Dybska: An Outlandish Idea or a Staple of Growth? Contradictory Visions of Urban Gardening in Documentary Films about Detroit and Philadelphia - Dorota Golanska: Importing Trauma/Reclaiming the «Wild»: Holocaust Memory in the US - Karl Wood: Black Flight, or A Tale of Two Tales - Francesca de Lucia: Chinatown as a Wild Zone in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea - Karolina Majkowska: The Dominican Republic as a Wild Zone in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz - Dominika Ferens: «Where the Wild Things Are»: Excursions into Mixed-Race Literature through Affect Theory - Ewa Antoszek: Various Expressions of Wild Zones: Chicana Identity in Selected Productions by Mexican-American Female Rap and Hip Hop Artists - Katarzyna Macedulska: Stories from the Wild Zone: Some Recent Developments of the American Memoir by Women - Agnieszka Lobodziec: (De)Marginalizations of Wild Zones in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Café - Natalia Vysotska: «Deathly afraid of being anything but normal»: Exploring the «Wild Zone» of Fat Female Body in Neil LaBute's Fat Pig - Yuri Stulov: Osage Avenue, Philadelphia Fire, and Civil Disobedience through Shakespeare's The Tempest - Pawel Frelik: From Visual Thoughtforms to Bauharoque: Paul Laffoley's Renegade Science Fiction Art - Jerzy Kamionowski: She a BaddDDD Sistuh: Sonia Sanchez as a Wild Zone Poet - Oskar Zasada: The Bizarre Tale of a Masked Rogue, or the Quixotic Wild Zone in James Gunn's Super - Kirk Palmer: Ishmael in the Wild - Krystyna Mazur: Queering the Wild Zone with Experimental Filmmakers: Barbara Hammer, Liz Rosenfeld, and Wu Tsang - Justyna Kociatkiewicz: Taming the Wild Zone: The Paradoxes of the Conspiracy Narrative - Malgorzata Poks: Conspiracy of Faith on the Margins of Empire: Christian Anarchism as a «Wild Zone» in Post-Countercultural America - Aleksandra M. Rózalska: Muslim Cultures as the «Wild Zone»: Representations of Muslim Women in American Television Series after 9/11 - Pawel Stachura: Marianne Moore's Zoning of Germany: On Moore's Translation of Adalbert Stifter's «Rock Crystal» - Mariusz Marszalski: Robinson Jeffers' Ecological Poetry: Human Culture in the Wild Zone - Laura Suchostawska: Wildlife, Not So Wild Metaphors: Personification of Animals and Plants in Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac - Tomasz Basiuk: Shameless (US) as Political Allegory. An Interclass Prospect.

O autorze

Jerzy Kamionowski is a literary scholar, whose present work is focused on African American poetry, especially by women.
Jacek Partyka writes on twentieth-century poetry and poetics, both Anglo- American and from a comparatist perspective, as well as on American Holocaust fiction.
Both are Assistant Professors and teach at the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Bialystok (Poland).