Proceedings 10

LOCAL COLORS OF THE STARS AND STRIPES 

The Proceedings of the International Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies, Torun, November 2000

Editor: Maria Wiszniowska

Contents

SECTION I. MAPPING THE ROUTES

• Barton Levi St. Armand – The House of Dickinson and the House of Hawthorne: Poetic Furnishings for the Interior Life
• Jerzy Kutnik – “0 say can you see…”: The Changing Colors and Contours of Old Glory
• David Pichaske – So What’s Midwestern about Midwestern Literature?
• Agnieszka Salska – Stevens and Williams: American Colors of the Modernist Poetic Renaissance
• Zbigniew Bialas – “Cut in Plain Marble”: Sites of Memory, Monuments & America

SECTION II. INTELLECTUAL, IMAGINARY AND GEOGRAPHICAL TRAVELS

• Paulina Ambrozy – Description Without Place? -New England in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
• Dominika Ferens – Two Faces of the Oriental(ist): Missionary and Travel Writings on China and Japan
• Zygmunt Mazur – The Dialectics of History in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres and Education of Henry Adams
• Malgorzata Poks – Getsemani, KY -Postcards from the Monastery (Who Is the Rhinoceros?)
• Malgorzata Siwek – From “Amalgam” to “Storyville” – Small Towns in Contemporary American Travel Writing

SECTION III. REGIONAL AMERICA

• Grazyna Branny – Faulkner’s Obverse Reflection as a Mode of Expression in Toni Morrison’s Paradise
• Anna Letowska-Mickiewicz – Lost Cause Again? The South as the Mainstay of Moral Sensitivity in Walker Percy’s Novels
• Jerzy Sobieraj – Regionalism and the South
• Beata Williamson – Susan Warner -Regionalist of the 1850s

SECTION IV. FILM AND MUSIC

• Marek Jezinski – The Utopian Dream about Freedom and Paradise: Neo-anarchism and the American Psychedelic Music of the Sixties
• Dariusz Pestka – John Zorn and his Concept of the Jewish Downtown Jazz
• Marek Paryz – Some Remarks on the Black Presence in Clint Eastwood’s Film Unforgiven
• Marta Wiszniowska – Transcoding America: America’s Shakespeare and Poland’s America

SECTION V. MINORITIES WRITE BACK

• Cheryl Alexander Malcolm – Regions of the Soul or Bad, Bad Boys? Bruce Jay Friedman’s When You’re Excused You’re Excused and Lady
• Patrycja Baran – Toni Morrison ‘s Version of Black America and Redefinition of Some Popular Myths
• Roy Goldblatt – “Put tin’ on the Goy”: Re-writing the Jewish American “Success Story”, Mary Antin to What Makes Sammy Run?
• Agnieszka Lakatos – Two Contemporary African-American Urban Love Stories: Toni Morrison ‘s Jazz and John Edgar Wideman’s Two Cities
• Izabella Penier – Magical Realism in Literary Quest for Modern Afro-American Identity; Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day
• Danuta Pytlak – The Untold Story: The Image of the Polish Immigrant Family in the USA (1880-1939) in Polish American Fiction
• Agnieszka Wroblewska – (In)visible Minority? Chinese Americans in California
• Miroslawa Ziaja-Buchholtz – Local Color in Black and White: The Bouquet by Charles W. Chesnutt

SECTION VI. EXPERIENCES OF OTHERNESS

• Tomasz Basiuk – The Place of Fiction and the Place of Autobiography in Edmund White’s “Skinned Alive”
• Justyna Maria Kociatkiewicz – Saul Bellow’s Early Novels as Antibildungsroman
• Zofia Kolbuszewska – Edward Gorey’s Beastly Babies, Gashlycrumb Tinies, and Hapless Children
• Joseph Kuhn – The Upturned Face: Stephen Crane’s The Monster and the Phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas