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.

It is possible to identify ways of conceptualizing change in American democracy. In this book, change is seen as a product of development. Here change is linear, it signifies progress.

Aims to establish the applications and implications of involution: how it is used to subtly reformat a text and how it changes the meaning of a work, trapping and reinventing the reader. This work analyses the transgressive use of imagery, symbols, patterns and other textual devices.

The book focuses on the representations of female sexuality and the body in South Asian American women's fiction. It analyzes several novels and over a dozen short stories to explore the mechanisms employed by women writers of South Asian descent to challenge the culturally sanctioned role of the female body as the carrier of cultural tradition.

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.

This book offers broad contemporary perspectives with regard to Toni Morrison's fiction. The contributions engage on widely debated issues of current American discourse such as the ineradicability of historical memory, the intricacy of racial identity, and the role of literature in revealing profound truth.

This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation, and how literary themes in spirituals and blues depict the destruction of the world.

The book examines American author Leslie Scalapino's avant-garde poetics as an experimental form of realism in the speculative mode. Scalapino's writings are considered here along the lines of the new materialist inquiry as well as new realist and speculative philosophical approaches.

The book examines the correspondences between the oeuvre of Jack Kerouac and the thought of Jacques Lacan. It sets off analyzing the reasons for Kerouac's aversion towards psychoanalysis, proceeds with discussing textual spontaneity, and concludes with a scrupulous analysis of the father figure(s) in Kerouac's cycle of the Duluoz Legend.