Mapping Literary Spaces

Wojciech Kalaga, Jacek Mydla

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Uniwersytet Śląski

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2014

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204

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ONIX MARC21

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. Mapping Literary Spaces. Red. Kalaga, Wojciech; Mydla, Jacek . Katowice: Uniwersytet Śląski, 2014, 204 s. ISBN 978-83-8012-001-3

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. Red. Kalaga, Wojciech; Mydla, Jacek. Mapping Literary Spaces [baza danych online] Katowice: Uniwersytet Śląski, 2014 [dostęp: 25 08 2024]. Dostęp w Ibuk Libra: https://libra.ibuk.pl/reader/mapping-literary-spaces-wojciech-kalaga-jacek-mydla-118223.

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ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-8012-001-3

DOI:

Wydawnictwo:

Uniwersytet Śląski

Rok wydania:

2014

Liczba stron:

204

XML:ISBN/ISSN:

ONIX MARC21

LIST OF CONTENTSProblem List of Contents5
Preface (Wojciech Kalaga, Jacek Mydla)9
Ewelina Bańka Sherman Alexie’s Report from American Indian“UrbaNation”11
Teresa Bruś Tourist in His Own Country. Louis MacNeice and Ireland21
Sonia Front “Written on the body is a secret code” — Body as Palimpsest in Jeanette Winterson32
Dorota Guzowska People on the Move: the Experience of Travelling in Seventeenth-Century England44
Magdalena Hebda Rootedness and Appropriation of Space in Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer62
Aleksandra Kania Trapped by the Ghost of a Typewriter: David Basckin’s“The Rosined Areola of Mrs. Mtetwa by Bucks Campbell”71
Bożena Kucała Mapping the Limits of Civilisation: J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians82
Małgorzata Nitka “Rust and must and cobwebs.” Of Accumulation and Circulation in Dickens’s Bleak House91
Katarzyna Nowak In the Name of the Father: Identity, Disruption, Difference. A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake106
Anna Pochmara Defying Time, Celebrating Space — The Construction of Male Bonds in the Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper117
Anna Popiel “I saw new Worlds beneath the Water ly”: The Gnostic Idea of Spiritual Displacement in the Poetry of Thomas Traherne125
Liza Potvin Remembering It in Our Bones: Marie Clements’ Burning Vision136
Małgorzata Rutkowska “American history is parking lots.” Place and Memory in Contemporary American Travel Writing143
Magdalena Słonka Images of the Hermetic Room in the Novels of Paul Auster153
Katarzyna Smyczyńska A City Girl at Heart: Constructions of Gendered Space in Chick-Lit Fictions162
George Volceanov Mapping Shakespeare’s Catholicism: Spatial Clues Indicating the Bard’s “True” Faith176
Ryszard W. Wolny In Search of Emptiness: A Voyage into the Heart of Terra Nullius in Patrick White’s Voss189

EwelinaBańka

newcircumstancesoftheurbanseting,isrethinkingandreinterpreting

ancienttraditionsandconstruingthemeaningofIndianness.Atthesame

time,AlexieiswellawareofthefactthattherearemoreandmoreIndian

citydwellerswhograduallylosecontactwiththeirreservationroots,and

whoconsciouslyabandontraditionsthussinkingintotheAmericanHmelt-

ingpot,”andthatawholegenerationofurbanIndianshasemergedfor

whomreservationlifeandtribaltraditionsareonlyoldsuperstitions,for

whichthereisnoplaceinmodernurbanreality.

Alexie’sﬁctionalsoprovesthat,despiteusingthelanguageofthedom-

inantculture,modernNativeAmericanstorytellersretainlinkswithold

Indiantraditions,celebratingcontemporaryIndianvalues.AsCarolMiller

putsit:

Inadditiontoprovidingsigniﬁcantinformationaboutaconsequential

andongoingNativeAmericandiasporaessentiallyignoredbymain-

streamwhitesociety,narrativesabouturbanAmericaasIndiancountry

alsoreinforcethelinkbetweencontemporaryandancestralstorytell-

ingtraditions.Andindoingso,theyprovideanimportantmedium

notonlyforsustainingculturebutforcreatingasigniﬁcantillustrative

resourceaboutthepragmaticbusinessofHgoingalong”intheworld,

justastheoldstoriesalwayshavedone.Imaginativeprint-language

Htellings”thatexploreintersectionsofIndiannessandurbanization

sharetheseriousfunctionalityoftraditionalNativestorytelling,and

functionalitymadeevenmoreimportantbecauseofﬁvehundredyears

ofdisruptions.18

Thankstotherisingnumberofwritersandsociologistswhoexploreand

reportoncontemporaryurbanIndianexperience,urbanIndiansarebecom-

inganincreasinglypowerfulgroup.Intheﬁctionofsuchleadingauthors

asShermanAlexie,thereadercanwitnesstheprocessofAmericanIndians’

successfulacclimatizationintheurbanseting.Thisprocess,asCarolMiller

suggests,canbecalledaH(re)taking[of]place”byurbanNativeAmericans

inthecity—Hadoublebreakingout—bothfromfederallydesignatedbound-

arieshistoricallyintendedtoisolateandcontainNativepeopleandfroman

equallypervasiveconﬁnementwithintheanachronisticfantasy-wilderness

ofthewhiteimagination.”19InhisrecentﬁctionShermanAlexieshowshow

incontemporaryAmericaNativeAmericanpeoplecelebratetheirethnicity

Hthroughremembrance,adaptation,andrecreation.”20

18Miller,HTellingtheUrbanIndian,”p.30.

19Miller,HTellingtheUrbanIndian,”p.29.

20PatriciaRiley,HTheMixedBloodWriterasInterpreterandMythmaker,”in:Mixed

RaceLiterature,ed.JonathanBrennan(Stanford:StanfordUniversityPress,2002),p.67.

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