Books in the New Americanists in Poland series

The essays included in this collection offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and visual art which reflect the current (post-)millennial fascination with theorizing ends and beginnings. Addressing a variety of media, the authors wonder at the ongoing spectacle of exhaustion and regeneration playing itself out on the American stage.

The question of identity has been present in Chicana literature since its beginnings and second part of the 20th century witnessed proliferation of works by Chicanas addressing this issue. This book examines the dynamics of interaction between multiple factors influencing the processes of Chicana identity formation presented in the analyzed texts.

A collection of essays in American Studies that investigates how American cultural production intersects with public memory. It analyzes travel writings, records of political history, and the ways American agricultural landscape preserves traces of the country's past.

The contributions of this book shed light on the wild zone. The term refers to the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.) that, in some identifiable ways, is/was marginalized in American society.

The essays in this book offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and computer games, which reflect current social and political developments since the beginning of this century. The authors probe the many ways in which repression and expression are the primary keywords for understanding contemporary American life and culture.