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(Mis) Reading America. American Dreams, Fictions and Illusions
red. Jerzy Durczak, Paweł Frelik
TAiWPN UNIVERSITAS
Kraków 2011
ISBN: 978-83-242-1372-6
liczba stron: 472
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Contents
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Introduction: From John Smith’s Map to Southland Tales – Four Centuries of Reading America
READING AMERICA
Andrea O’reilly Herrera
Cartographies of Knowledge: The Remapping of American Literature and Culture
Cezar M. Ornatowski
Imagining Collective Identities: America, Europe, and Their Others
Anna Bendrat
Presidents Declare War: Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional “Power Grabs”
Maciej Masłowski
Reading the Book of America A Note on Puritan Historiography, Conspiracy Theories, and the American Interpretive Compulsion
THE PASTS
Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
The Fall of the House of the Elite: A Reading of Southern Aristocracy through the Architectural Correlative
Agnieszka Salska
“…something fantastic and abracadabrant, belonging to no known language”: Henry James’ Perplexed Readings of the American Scene
Anna Warso
Speaking through the Masks: the Role of Blackface Minstrelsy in John Berryman’s Dream Songs
Justyna Kociatkiewicz
A Reading of a Reading of America: Robert Coover’s The Public Burning
Marta Koval
The Enigma of Untold Stories: Narratives of the Present as Mirrors of the Past in TC Boyle’s World’s End
Zuzanna Ładyga
Simulating the Pastoral in David Foster Wallace’s “The View from Mrs Thompson’s”
Jerzy Kamionowski
“Who Do the Saying”? – (Mis)Reading America in Toni Morrison’s “The Dead of September ”
and Amiri Baraka’s “Somebody Blew Up America”
VISIONS OF FUTURES AND PASTS THAT NEVER CAME
Anna Gilarek
The Vision of Fascist America in Alternate History Novels by Philip K Dick and Philip Roth
Emilia Borowska
Debugging and Deprogramming America in William T Vollmann’s You Bright and Risen Angels
Aleksandra Bubiło
Heterotopias in the Novels of Chuck Palahniuk
Kamil Rusiłowicz
Walking among the Ruins: Reading the Post-Apocalyptic America in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Grzegorz Welizarowicz
Richard Montoya’s (Re)Readings of the Chicano/a
Ewa Antoszek
Marianismo and Malinchismo: the Role of Sexuality in the Production of Disfigured Images of hicanas
in Face of an Angel by Denise Chávez
Anna Pochmara-Ryżko
Following the Transatlantic Trail – the Tropes of Africa, America, and Europe in the Writings of Alain Locke
Małgorzata Poks
Reading Toni Morrison’s Paradise as an Exercise in the Poetics of the Impossible
Izabella Kimak
Americans Misreading (Other) Americans: Racial Subjects in the post-/ US in two South Asian American Novels
Jerzy Durczak
The Shrinking World of Growing Up: from Claude Brown to Junot Díaz
Karolina Majkowska
Non-reading of America in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!
Marta Mazurek
(Mis)reading the Negress: Dessa Rose and Womanist Praxis
MEDIA READINGS
Edyta Frelik
Verbi-visual Contexts in th-century American Painting
Zofia Kolbuszewska
Hybridity and (Mis)reading at/of the American Frontier: Travelling with Nobody in Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man
Sławomir Konkol
That Communal Dream – Laurie Anderson’s Re-readings of Subjectivity
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