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Tomasz Basiuk • Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska •
Krystyna Mazur (eds .)
The American Uses of History
Essays on Public Memory
his collection of essays in American Studies
investigates how American cultural
production intersects with public memory .
The contributions present the results of diverse
fields of research . While most are literary analyses,
others focus on film, art works, monuments,
and other means by which public memory
is shaped . The essays in this collection also
analyze travel writings, records of political history,
and the ways American agricultural landscape
preserves traces of the country’s past .
Contents: Tomasz Basiuk/Sylwia Kuźma-
Markowska/Krystyna Mazur: Introduction •
Erika Doss: Who Owns Historical Memory?
Commemorative Conflicts in the American
Southwest • Edyta Frelik: «Ideas freed from
events which brought them into being»: Jasper
Johns’s Use of History • William R . Glass:
«Do We Get to Win this Time?» Hollywood’s
History of the Vietnam War • Radosław Rybkowski:
Meaningless History: The Use of History
in the American Musical • Marta Marciniak:
«Do you remember rock and roll radio?»
– Punk as Nostalgia for Punk • Jason Ruiz:
Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural
Politics of Economic Conquest • Keith Griffler:
Come Together: The Underground Railroad
and the Project for the New American Century
• Aleksandra Szaniawska: «Freedom Is
Contagious»: Conflicted Relations between
Black and White Women in the Civil Rights
and Early Women’s Liberation Movement •
Yuri Stulov: Black History in Contemporary
African American Fiction • Dominika Ferens:
Diachronic vs . Synchronic Accounts of Cultural
Difference in Paule Marshall’s The Chosen
Place, the Timeless People • Aneta Dybska:
History and Heterotopia in Gloria Naylor’s
Novel Linden Hills (1985) • Emilia Borowska:
Gayl Jones’s Corregidora: A Post-Cartesian Response
to the Past Which Is Not Her Own •
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa,
Wien, 2011 . 351 pp ., 3 fig ., 1 graph
New Americanists in Poland . Vol . 1
Edited by Tomasz Basiuk
hb . ISBN 978-3-631-61461-7
CHF 87 .– / € D 59 .80 / € A 61 .50 / € 55 .90 / £ 50 .30 / US-$ 86 .95
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Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska: History in the
Music and Poetry of African American Spirituals
• Jerzy Kamionowski: Out of the Past Endlessly
Rocking: Audre Lorde’s Use of Dahomean
Myths • Paulina Ambroży-Lis: «It Is this
Brokenness that Interests Me»: The Aesthetics
and Politics of Fragment in Susan Howe’s
Historical Poetry • Paweł Stachura: The End
of History in Whitman’s War Poems • Alicja
Piechucka: «History Is Now»: Historical Experience
and Historical Vacuum in T . S . Eliot
and the French Symbolists • Mateusz Liwiński:
Retrofuturistic Impulse: Skeuomorphs of the
Atomic Era in Fallout • Justyna Kociatkiewicz:
History as Loss, History as Waste: American
Twentieth Century in the Novels of Bellow and
DeLillo • Maciej Masłowski: «Like nothing in
this life»: The Concept of Historic Time in Don
DeLillo’s Falling Man • Gustavo Sánchez Canales:
«In a Different World, We Could Have
Been Real Friends:» Two Opposite Approaches
to the Issue of the Holocaust in Jonathan Safran
Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated • Agnieszka
Graff: «But this was not Nazi Germany . This
was America .» Revisiting the Concentration
Camp Analogy in Betty Friedan’s Feminine
Mystique • : Włodzimierz Batóg: The American
1960s: Historians’ Debate • James G . Ryan:
Historians of American Communism Remain
in Denial • Paweł Laidler: The Best Mean to an
End: The «Three-Element List» as a Method of
the U .S . Supreme Court’s Adjudication . A Historical
Perspective • Damian S . Pyrkosz: The
Past Revitalized: Preservation of the Rural
America’s Cultural Heritage • Karol Derwich:
American Exceptionalism in U .S . Latin American
Policy at the Turn of 19th and 20th Century
• David Jones/Joanna Waluk: The Magic
Became Tragic: The Special Diplomatic Exchange
Between the Republic of Poland and
the United States of America, 1934 to 1939 .
toMAsz bAsiuk is a literary and cultural
studies scholar, whose work is focused in
postmodernism and queer studies .
sylWiA kuźMA-MArkoWskA works on social
American history with a strong interest in
gender-inflected aspects of American society .
krystynA MAzur has written on American
poetry and film . She is working on a
project about lesbian poets in Modernism .
All three teach at the American Studies
Center of the University of Warsaw .
Melodee Beals
Coin, Kirk, Class and Kin
Emigration, Social Change
and Identity in Southern Scotland
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles,
Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011 . XII, 277 pp .
British Identities Since 1707 . Vol . 3
Edited by Paul Ward and Richard Finlay
pb . ISBN 978-3-0343-0252-4
CHF 64 .– / € D 44 .– / € A 45 .20 / € 41 .11 /
£ 37 .– / US-$ 63 .95
T
here are many detailed accounts of
nineteenth-century emigrants, of their
journeys and settlements abroad – but what
of those they left behind?
This book delves into the heart of Georgian
Britain to explore the role that the men
and women of the Scottish Borders played in
the mass emigration of the early nineteenth
century . Although most never departed themselves,
their perceptions of wealth, poverty,
morality and community shaped the flow of
emigrants from the rural south to the wide
and expanding British Empire, as well as its
North American rival, the United States .
Scouring the records of grand estates, humble
Kirks, flamboyant newspapers and family
correspondences, the author returns the
Scottish Borders to the centre of Scotland’s
agricultural, industrial and demographic revolutions
. Standing on the sharp edge of rural
transformation, the Borders played both
archetype and exception, pioneering the way
from a regional past to an imperial future .
MeloDee beAls is an Academic Coordinator
for History at the Higher Education Academy
. She received her PhD in Scottish history
from the University of Glasgow in 2009 .