Art, Ethics and Provocation

Anna Suwalska-Kołecka is a Senior Lecturer at the State School of Higher Professional Education in Płock, Poland. She has published in the areas of modern British and American drama, with a particular emphasis on Beckett, Albee, Stoppard, and Churchill. Her research interests include the construction and representation of space, the surreal flights from realism on contemporary stages, and physical theatre.Izabella Penier studied American literature and works as Post-doc at the University of Łódź, Poland. Her research focuses on African American and postcolonial scholarship. It particularly concerns the transformations that Black studies have recently undergone due to critical interventions from global frameworks of analysis such as postcolonialism, cultural studies, Black Atlantic, and diaspora studies.

• Contents: Izabella Penier/Anna Suwalska-Kołecka: Art, Ethics, and Provocation – Katarzyna Smyczyńska: Circling Around the Clock Tower: A Visual (Her) story of People through Time – Agata Sitko: Cut and Paste. Dreamscapes of Joseph Cornell – Zbigniew Maszewski: Tomás Rivera’s Vignettes and the Tradition of American. Modernist Fiction: Hemingway and Faulkner – Beata Lisowska: Cinema and Anthropology. Film as a Source of Knowledge – Jakub Ligor: The Coen Brothers’ Fargo as a Transgressive Comedy – Izabela Łapińska/Kaja Łapińska: A Creative Act of «Expropriation» – Justyna Stępień: «Beyond the Edge of the Frame.» Transgression and the Aesthetics of Nostalgia in Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio – Izabella Penier: Black Is, Black Ain’t: Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston – Katarzyna Piotrowska: Demystifying Common Pain in Linda Hogan’s The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir – Andrzej Dorobek: Polish Acid Rock Approximations – Jadwiga Maszewska: Ellen Glasgow as a Short Story Writer - A Feminist Rebel or a Southern Conservative? «Between Two Shores» (1897) and «Dare’s Gift» (1917) – Anna Frąckowicz: Crossing the Boundaries of the Body. Transgression or a Continuum – Anna Suwalska-Kołecka: Warlikowski Provokes. Gender in Theatrum Mundi in his Production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw.