Browsing Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 8/2018 by Title
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Art (and) Criticism: Hart Crane and David Siqueiros
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The article focuses on an analysis of Hart Crane’s essay “Note on the Paintings of David Siqueiros.” One of Crane’s few art-historical texts, the critical piece in question is first of all a tribute to the American poet’s ... -
Blindness in the Beckettland of Malfunctioning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Many of Beckett characters suffer from different kinds of disabilities and impairments, this being one of the ways of punishing them for “the eternal sin of having been born.” The article discusses blindness in Waiting for ... -
Boundaries and Otherness in Science Fiction: We Cannot Escape the Human Condition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The article explores the construction of boundaries, alterity and otherness in modern science-fiction (SF) films. Boundaries, understood as real state borders, territoriality and sovereignty, as well as the construction ... -
Cabeza de Vaca, Estebanico, and the Language of Diversity in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Published in 1542, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s La relación is a chronicle of the Pánfilo de Narváez’s 1527 expedition to the New World in which Cabeza de Vaca was one of the four survivors. His account has received ... -
The Catch of the Hyperreal: Yossarian and the Ideological Vicissitudes of Hyperreality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Hyperreality is a key term in Jean Baudrillard’s cultural theory, designating a phase in the development of image where it “masks the absence of a profound reality.” The ambiance of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) closely ... -
The Conflicting Traditions of Portraying the Jewish People in the Chester Mystery Cycle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The article seeks to analyze the portrayal of the Jews in two plays from the Chester mystery cycle: “Trial and Flagellation” and “The Passion.” The analysis acknowledges that the cycle is a mixture of, and a dialogue ... -
Death of the Soldier and Immortality of War in Frank Ormsby’s A Northern Spring
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The paper analyzes the collection of the Northern Irish poet Frank Ormsby entitled A Northern Spring published in 1986. On the basis of selected poems, the author of this paper aims to examine the poet’s reflections about ... -
Defying Maintenance Mimesis: The Case of Somewhere over the Balcony by Charabanc Theatre Company
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Making reference to Luce Irigaray’s definitions of mimesis and mimicry, and the ways in which these concepts respectively reinforce and challenge the phallogocentric order, this article investigates the representation of ... -
The First Constitutional Government of the Minnesota Anishinaabeg
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)In this paper I trace the development of Native American constitutionalism in the early twentieth century. Specifically, I focus on the first constitutional government of the White Earth Nation, located in northwestern ... -
”The Heart of this People is in its right place”: The American Press and Private Charity in the United States during the Irish Famine
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The potato blight that struck Ireland in 1845 led to ineffable suffering that sent shockwaves throughout the Anglosphere. The Irish Famine is deemed to be the first national calamity to attract extensive help and support ... -
Masculinities, History and Cultural Space: Queer Emancipative Thought in Jamie O’Neill’s at Swim, Two Boys
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)At Swim, Two Boys, a 2001 novel by Jamie O’Neill, tells a story of gay teen romance in the wake of the Easter Rising. This paper considers the ways in which the characters engage in patterns of masculine behaviour in a ... -
Mexican Village: Josefina Niggli’s Border Crossing Narrative
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The paper presents Josefina Niggli (1910–83), an American mid-twentieth-century writer who was born and grew up in Mexico, and her novel Mexican Village (1945). A connoisseur of Mexican culture and tradition, and at the ... -
Michael Longley and Birds
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)The following essay attempts to shed some light on Michael Longley’s poems about birds, which form a fairly complicated network of mutual enhancements and cross-references. Some of them are purely descriptive lyrics. Such ... -
“The Most Photographed Barn in America”: Simulacra of the Sublime in American Art and Photography
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(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)
The photographers who collect at the Moulton Barn are themselves consciously working within this tradition, and turning themselves into do-it-yourself “artist-seers.” They are the creators, not the slaves of the simulacrum. -
The New Sentence: June Jordan and the Politics of Parataxis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)In the final part of the paper, I contrast the New Sentence parataxis with a more practical, more spontaneous (albeit more conventional) approach embodied by June Jordan. The paratactic structures of her writing remain ... -
”No Country for Old Men”? The Question of George Moore’s Place in the Early Twentieth-Century Literature of Ireland
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)The paper scrutinizes the literary output of George Moore with reference to the expectations of the new generation of Irish writers emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although George Moore is considered ... -
Oppressive Faces of Whiteness in Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress contributes significantly to the literary debate on the definition of whiteness. The socio-historical construction of whiteness emerging from the novel is amplified by white imagery ... -
Outside the Magic Circle of White Male Supremacy in the Jim Crow South: Virginia Foster Durr’s Memoirs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Virginia Foster Durr was born in 1903 in Birmingham, Alabama in a former planter class family, and in spite of the gradual decline in the family fortune, she was brought up as a traditional southern belle, utterly subjected ... -
”A past that has never been present”: The Literary Experience of Childhood and Nostalgia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)This essay explores the modernist aesthetic involved in creating a fictive, nostalgic, childhood experience. Evoking the experience of childhood through fiction is as close to actually reliving childhood as we can get. The ... -
Post-revisionism: Conflict (Ir)resolution and the Limits of Ambivalence in Kevin McCarthy’s Peeler
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)This essay considers a historical novel of recent times in revisionist terms, Kevin McCarthy’s debut novel of 2010, Peeler. In doing so, I also address the limitations that the novel exposes within Irish revisionism. I ...