Polish Journal for American Studies

PJAS 18 Contents

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Latinx Stories in the 21st Century

Ewa Antoszek, Introduction: What Is a Latinx Story in the 21st Century?

Esther Álvarez-López, Empathic Imagining and Solidarity in Latinx Transnational Migration Narratives

Cristina Martín Hernández, Of Borders and Bridges: Re-Imagining Hospitable Encounters Through a Feminist Border Perspective in Julia Álvarez’s Afterlife

Ewa Antoszek, Crossing Multiple Borders: Reyna Grande’s A Dream Called Home. A Memoir

Réka M. Cristian, Healing Processes in Aurora Levins Morales’s Remedios and Medicine Stories

Grażyna Zygadło, “In Search of Their Mothers”: The Ancestor in Cherrie Moraga’s Memoir Native Country of the Heart

Ewa Barbara Łuczak, Domesticana rasquache: Ana Castillo’s So Far from God

Richard D. Reitsma A Queer Romance, Queering the National Romance: LatinX Narratives of Belonging
from The Squatter and the Don to Red, White, and Royal Blue

Małgorzata Martynuska, Food and Crime in Raquel V. Reyes’ Culinary Mystery Mango, Mambo, and Murder: A Caribbean Kitchen Mystery (2022)

Andrea O’Reilly, Herrera Curating cubanía Through the Lens of Visual Culture

Grzegorz Welizarowicz, Calafia and Ramona in the Garden of Freeways: Carlos Morton’s Los dorados
as the Wasteland of Memory and Alethic Frontier

Oleksandr Pronkevich, “Theater on the Border” or Here Comes Quixote Nuevo

Varia

Kastor Ornowski, “Something queer in the cellar”: Reading H. P. Lovecraft’s Pickman Through a Queer Gothic Lens

Klara Szmańko, Representation of Whiteness and Blackness in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior

Izabella Kimak, You Are What You Eat: Narrating Ethnic Identity Through Food in Polish Chicagoan
Writing

Maja Piskadło, “All That Is Good Is Nasty!”: Parliament-Funkadelic and the Grooving Bodies of Afrofuturistic Citizens

Atalie Gerhard, (Anti-)Liberational Feminism in the Neo-Westerns Harriet (2019) versus Terror on
the Prairie
(2022)

Review Essay

Grzegorz Welizarowicz, A Dispatch from California: Blackbox at UC Riverside, Fall Season 2023

Reviews

Contributors