Founded In    2003
Published   annually
Affiliated Organization   Polish Association for American Studies
     
Editorial Board

Managing Editor: Marek Paryz

Editorial Board: Zofia Kolbuszewska, Zuzanna Ladyga, Pawel Stachura, Patrycja Antoszek, Karolina Krasucka

Advisory Committee: Andrzej Dakowski, Joanna Durczak, Jerzy Kutnik, Zbigniew Mazur, Zbigniew Lewicki, Elzbieta Oleksy, Agata Preis-Smith, Agnieszka Salska, Piotr Skurowski, Tadeusz Slawek

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Articles should not exceed 5,000 words, and reviews of current publications 3,000 words.

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Marek Paryz
American Literature Department
University of Warsaw
ul. Nowy Swiat 4
00-497 Warszawa, Poland
E-mail: m.a.paryz@uw.edu.pl

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New issue of Polish Journal for American Studies.

Polish Journal for American Studies

Thanks to the generous support of the Polish-American Fulbright Committee, Polish Association for American Studies is pleased to announce that starting with the year 2003 Polish Journal for American Studies will be published as an annual academic periodical devoted to various aspects of American civilization and culture. Each issue will include articles and reviews of publications in the fields of American Studies and American literature.

 

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, Volume 7

Eleven articles on literature, cultural studies, and history, an annual survey of Polish contributions in American studies. Reviews of recent Polish books in American studies. The issue is dedicated to the memory of Andrzej Antoszek (1971-2013), a distinguished Americanist of Catholic University of Lublin.

In Memory of Andrzej Antoszek PJAS_vol700memorial_antoszek.pdf


"Passionately engaged in American Studies in Poland, Andrzej did important work in two fields: postmodernism and African American Studies. The untimely passing of this outstanding scholar is an enormous loss to the American Studies community in Poland."

Rethinking the History of the American Revolution: An Interview with Michal Jan RozbickiPJAS_vol7_01wawrzyczek.pdf


Michal Jan Rozbicki (b. 1946) is currently Professor of History at Saint Louis University and Director of the SLU Center for Intercultural Studies, which he founded in 2011. To the middle generation of Polish Americanists he is better remembered as the Director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, 1987-1990, Managing Editor of the Center's periodical American Studies (now The Americanist) in the years 1985-1994, and a co-founder of the Polish Association for American Studies in 1990.

"The profession of humility": Marianne Moore's Ethical Artifice PJAS_vol702fiedorczuk.pdf


Moore's poetics of humility is linked with her strong tendency towards self-effacement, even though her style, for instance her complex prosody, is an inevitable mark of the presence of the artist. Yet, the artist that she is is not a romantic egoist but someone genuinely interested in what is external to the ego or, more broadly, to human subjectivity, thus making the poetry hospitable, like Noah's ark, to all kinds of beings, both human and non-human, as well as to various discourses, for instance that of natural sciences.

"Does it seem i . . . poet-wit? shame on me then!": Laura (Riding) Jackson's refusal to Play the Game of Poetry PJAS_vol7_03kmiecik.pdf


The article presents Laura (Riding) Jackson's reflection on language and political impact of her poetry. "She proved poetry, a truthful lie, to be a coherent and successful metacritique of itself and its own limitations and possibilities."

Death and Heroism in the Work of Frank O'Hara and Andy Warhol PJAS_vol7_04pioro.pdf


The author presents heroism and hero worship as a high-modernist poetic theme appropriated by the New York artists.

The Motif of Fraternal Incest in Gladys Huntington's Madame Solario PJAS_vol7_05piechucka.pdf


The article presents a historical survey of French reception of Gladys Huntington's 1956 novel.

Black looks and Imagining Oneself Richly: The Cartoons of Jackie Ormes


American Black women's struggle for independence and agency in the 1940s in Jackie Ormes's ironic cartoons.

Dissecting the Commodified: The Frontier as Hyperreality in Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians


The author presents a detailed discussion of deconstruction of Western and frontier imagery in several Western films.

Between Eden and Utopia: Techno-Innocence and Cyber-Rapture in William Gibson's Neuromancer


The author confronts Gibson's novel with the themes of American independence, the frontier, and the myth of the American Adam, essentially placing Gibson as continuator of the American Romantic tradition. 'Despite its dystopian surface, Neuromancer reveals its "utopian horizon" in developing several semi-religious motifs of utopian nature, one of which is the aforecited "re-ordering of nature" and "creation of life."'

"The omphalos of all we are": Re-imagining the Captivity Narrative in Mark Z. danielewski's House of Leaves


The author provides explication and interpretation of the historical passages in Danielewski's novel, which are related to American colonial history, indenture, slavery, and captivity narratives. "The themes and gestures that Danielewski borrows from the captivity narrative contribute to the substance of this house of leaves. Its revisionist and visionary form is born from an American literary tradition of emigration, conflict, conversion, and rebirth."

"A Kitchen of Her own": Chicana identity negotiations framed Through foodways in Carla trujillo's What Night Brings


Imagery of food in Truillo's text is analyzed in terms of chicana identity and subversive expression of longing for justice and revision of male dominance. "Food as semiotic praxis can reveal aspects of identity negotiations. Marci Cruz does not want to accept passively the rules of the social milieu. Through her culinary transgressions, she becomes an active agent of her life as she speaks out against the imposed silence, submissiveness, self-sacrifice, and servility."

The Evolution of Emo and its Theoretical implications


"The purpose of this article is to analyze how emo, a youth subculture, evolved in the United States during a period of approximately twenty five years, since the mid-1980s, particularly focusing on how it changed in regard to the zeitgeist of the time period, as well as how it appropriated various elements of past subcultures into itself in order to create its own subcultural identity. Special attention will be paid to the third incarnation, which emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century and proved to be the most widespread variation of the subculture. It is also interesting how this incarnation was affected by historical events such as the Columbine High School Massacre and 9/11."

Poetry and Epistemology


The essay reviews Jacek Gutorow's book, Luminous Traversing: Wallace Stevens and the American Sublime, published in Frankfurt am Main by Peter Lang in 2012.

Bożenna Chylińska. The Gospel of Work and Wealth in the Puritan Ethic: From John Calvin to Benjamin Franklin


Book review.

Other Issues

January 2015, 9
Polish Journal for American Studies 4 2010, 4
Polish Journal for American Studies 3 2009, 3
January 2008, 2
January 2004, 1
Polish Journal for American Studies, Volume 8 2014, Volume 8
Polish Journal for American Studies 5 2011, 5
2012, 6