American Wild Zones

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 Białystok (Poland).

• Contents: Marek Wilczyński: 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 Golańska: 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 Łobodziec: (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 – Paweł 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 – Małgorzata Poks: Conspiracy of Faith on the Margins of Empire: Christian Anarchism as a «Wild Zone» in Post-Countercultural America – Aleksandra M. Różalska: Muslim Cultures as the «Wild Zone»: Representations of Muslim Women in American Television Series after 9/11 – Paweł 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.