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Drunken Language, Elliptical Politics: Caryl Churchill’s Oblique Protest Theatre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
Can “political theatre” exist in today’s political climate? In the last few decades, our understanding of politics and theatre has undermined the basis on which prior generations of artists conceived of both politics and ...
Reality in the Margins, Pseudo-Reality in the Main Frame: The Posthuman in Steven Hall’s "The Raw Shark Texts"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
I contend that, at its core, Stephen Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts is an allegory of reading that illustrates how composite realities exist in the increasingly electronically-dominated world of posthumanism. Hall succinctly ...
The Vivified Sacrificial Rites as the Site of Conflation of Man and Animal in Adele Wiseman’s "The Sacrifice"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
The article juxtaposes two explanations of the ancient phenomenon of sacrifice, one of which, formulated by René Girard, emphasizes the aspects of scapegoating and transference of people’s violent inclinations, while the ...
Ethnography, Translation of Cultures and History in V. S. Naipaul’s India Trilogy, „The Loss of El Dorado” and „A Way in the World”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
The genre of travel writing is not only informed by an interdisciplinary aesthetic but also involves the description of peoples and the translation/re-presentation/re-interpretation of cultures. This article provides ...
“The Symbol of My Condition”: Dynamics of Alignment with Power in Sarah Schulman’s „Rat Bohemia”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
This article considers how Sarah Schulman in her novel Rat Bohemia and other works utilizes her intersectional position as a Jewish lesbian writer to bear witness to her experience of AIDS epidemic. It analyzes how Schulman ...