Portal społecznościowy jako narzędzie do promowania informacji regionalnych –na przykładzie profili Facebook TVP Łódź, Radia Łódź i „Expressu Ilustrowanego”

Author(s): Zbigniew Gruszka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2021

The author aims at evaluating the activities on the Facebook profiles of three regional media editorials – namely the ‘TVP 3 Łódź’ TV channel, the ‘Radio Łódź’ radio channel, and the Express Ilustrowany daily – particularly in terms of including local and regional information in their posts. Another objective was to attempt to quantify and compare these activities. The used research method is the analysis of profile content on Facebook, and the study was conducted within the period of one month (1st March – 31st March, 2018).

TEKİNSİZİN GERİ DÖNÜŞÜ

Author(s): Alper Kara / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 35/2021

Psychoanalysis, which is built on a series of psychological theories and methods, aims to understand and eliminate mental problems in the dark spaces of the unconscious getting to the root of them. Sexual fantasies during childhood and events forgotten through repression in this period are seen as sources that feed this dark place. Psychoanalysis tries to understand this dark, unknown area through the concept of "uncanny". The emotions that the characters repressed during their childhood in the novels The Last Voice They Hear, Silent Children and The Face That Must Die written in an uncanny atmosphere by the modern English horror writer Ramsey Campbell form the basis for the concept of “uncanny”. The source of the uncanny that characters experience is the undesired things of the past reaching the present with qualities unfamiliar as a result of the suppression. An unfinished, incomplete childhood comes to light in an adult body. What comes out with the return of the repressed deviates from what is familiar, and assumes a familiar but a strange form. The characters experience uncanny during the round trips between the two extremes. The dilemma that arises between the familiar and unfamiliar symbolizes their conflict with their own selves and their struggle between good and evil. The study will analyse Ramsey Campbell's aforementioned novels in the context of "uncanny".

Pociąg do przyszłości – lekcja historii z Colsonem Whiteheadem

Author(s): Agnieszka Gondor-Wiercioch / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2021

In my article I am going to focus on the innovating way in which Colson Whitehead presents African-American history in his novel The Underground Railroad. Similarly, to the classical texts exposing erased and buried histories in the U.S. such as written by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, Whitehead proposes a history lesson for Americans and non-Americans, but instead of producing another historical reconstruction, he uses the technique of multisynchronism combining the past, present and future that constantly interplay in his narrative. The plot that binds all other motives together is that of the Underground Railroad which is simultaneously referring us to the historical organization and a secret vehicle that never stops and thus it is a metaphor for actions undertaken to abolish systemic racism that never ends in the U.S. I would like to argue that apart from the above-mentioned literary strategies Whitehead also created timeless language so different from his literary predecessors like Faulkner and Morrison who often relied on modernist history reconstruction and the use of dialects (including AAVE). In my article I will not only attempt to answer the question if Whitehead’s formal achievements are indeed revolutionary, but I will analyse his way of incorporating Black history into fiction, trying to compare his diagnosis of the American society to the conclusions of Faulkner’s Light in August and Morrison’s Beloved. I will focus particularly on the combination of post-racial prose, speculative realism and afrofuturism.

Latające statki i podwodne plemiona – afrofuturystyczne konteksty mitu Flying Africans

Author(s): Elżbieta Binczycka-Gacek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2021

This article’s objective is to compare different afrofuturistic texts containing references to the Flying Africans myth. I am going to analyse Anthony Joseph’s text The African Origins of UFOs and Nalo Hopkinson’s novel The Salt Roads in the musical funk and ambient context. My main focus is the song Star Child from album The Mothership Connection by the American band Parliament-Funkadelic and an electro-ambient album by the American group Drexciya, entitled The Quest, built around a story about an underwater human race living in the bottom of the Atlantic, born of pregnant women thrown overboard by slave ships.

„Afryka, która nadchodzi”. Nie-utopijna wizja przyszłości w powieści Rouge impératrice Léonory Miano

Author(s): Agata Mrowińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2021

This article seeks to present the way in which the Afrofuturism as a literary genre can be used to reflect on the potential of the African future. In the novel Rouge impératrice, published in 2019, Cameroonian author Léonora Miano introduces a vision of the future united state of Katiopa which enables her to reconsider some present problems and offered socio-political solutions. The image of the possible future of the African states constitutes a clever and innovative analysis of the current political and cultural issues of the African continent, and its possibilities for a stable and peaceful progress. At the same time, Miano tries to stay clear of the category of Black utopia.

Afro-futurism and Black Technopoetics: An Interview with Louis Chude-Sokei

Author(s): Elżbieta Binczycka-Gacek,Dariusz Brzostek / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

Toplumsal Gerçekliği Anlamada Kurgu Metinlerin Güvenirliği

Author(s): Rızkan Tok / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2021

It is possible to argue that literary works have had vital importance in people’s lives throughout the ages. Subjectivity is thought to be the determining factor in these works since their nature consists of fiction. Based on this approach, the idea that it is difficult to reach objective or scientific inferences through fictional texts is emphasized, and it is highlighted that these texts may have problems in terms of reliability in reflecting social reality. In the context of this idea, it is argued that it is not possible for the fictional texts to be included in the rational epistemology of the sciences since they include too much subjective feelings and fictive images. In this study, while the backbone of the fiction-reality distinction which forms the basis of this idea is discussed, the problematic aspects of making this kind of sharp distinction are pointed out. In this respect, the novel as a literary genre is determined as the starting point in terms of exemplifying fictional texts. Therefore, starting from the novel, the possibilities of reaching social reality through fictional texts are tried to be investigated by referring to the concepts, perspectivism and relativism.

Egy közép-európai regénylexikon

Author(s): Imre József Balázs,Júlia-Réka Vallasek / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2022

“The Dictionary of the 20th Century Central European Novel” (Dicţionarul romanului central-european din secolul XX) is a forthcoming reference book edited by Adriana Babeți, the result of a collective effort of scholars affiliated with the Third Europe Foundation, Timișoara, a project carried out in more than 20 years. The book includes scholarly articles about 250 novels, written by 197 authors. As coauthors of the Dictionary, with an expertise on Hungarian and comparative literary studies, we discuss the theoretical background of the Dictionary, presenting the contexts of its creation. Through some examples we present how the volume conceives and defines the idea of Central Europe, and how it circumscribes the specific values and themes of the region.

“Listening” to the Rhetoric of the “Mccarthy Era” in I Married a Communist

Author(s): Corina Alexandrina Lirca / Language(s): English Issue: 16/2014

I Married a Communist is a long novel and the seventh book in the Zuckerman series to feature the character Nathan Zuckerman, a character-narrator who for the second time chooses to step aside and focus on the life story of a different character. The novel comprises the narrator’s apparent reporter-like reconstruction of Ira Ringold’s life experiences by locating them within a political, social and autobiographical context. The audience soon realizes the unreliability of the narrator who in an effort to render coherence to the man’s destiny fills in the gaps of information with his own imagined explanations. The novel also offers an explanation to Zuckerman’s choice of a writing career.

“Lo que nos interesa de una obra es su capacidad de conmovernos, de replantear nuestra posición en el mundo o de arrojar una distinta luz sobre ella” Entrevista a Darío Ochoa de Chinchetru, director de Automática Editorial

Author(s): Borja Martín Mozo / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 11/2020

En apenas una década de existencia, Automática se ha consolidado como una de las editoriales de referencia en España para los lectores de narrativa extranjera y en una parada obligatoria para aquellos que tienen la brújula orientada hacia las letras del Este. Desde Centroeuropa a China, pasando por Rusia y los Balcanes, su cartografía literaria no ha dejado de crecer y de afinarse con el paso del tiempo, tanto a la hora de sondear territorios poco o nada frecuentados en busca de nuevas voces como de recuperar algunos clásicos ineludibles que pedían a gritos una segunda oportunidad.

Dissidence et transgression dans le processus de création de la pièce Le rêve d'Urmila inspirée du Ramayana et du kathakali dans un contexte de controverse

Author(s): Sylvie Belleau / Language(s): French Issue: 46/2021

In 2018, two controversies erupted in Montreal around director Robert Lepage's latest creations accusing him of cultural appropriation. A few weeks later, the play Le rêve d'Urmila was presented as part of my creative laboratory for the Doctorate in Littérature et arts de la scene et de l’écran at Université Laval in Quebec City. Inspired by a myth and a traditional Indian dance, how do we deal with transgression and dissent in a creative work that is rooted in another culture?

The Cult of Cyril and Methodius during Socialism. Ewelina Drzewiecka’s Research on Anniversaries and the Manipulations of Ideological Texts

Author(s): Elena Azmanova-Rudarska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

This article is a review of the study entitled Юбилейно и модерно. Кирило-методиеският разказ през социализма в България [Jubilee and modern. The Cyril-lo-Methodian narrative during socialism in Bulgaria], authored by Ewelina Drzewiecka (София: БАН, Кирило-Методиевски научен център, Кирило-Методиевски студии, 29, pp. 232).

Perspectives on ESL Acquisition for Adult Learners in Romania

Author(s): Diana Marcu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The present paper aims at catching a glimpse of the process of second languagelearning and acquisition among adult learners in Romania. When talking aboutadult learners, the focused age group comprises individuals over 24 years old whoare no longer enrolled in any type of educational system. On the contrary, theyalready have jobs, families and lead a busy life. The paper comprises four parts – theintroduction presents some factors, like age, psychological and environmentalcomponents, which interact in the process of successful language acquisition. Thesecond part discusses motivation which has a pivotal role in the process of languageacquisition while in the next part some difficulties Romanian adult learners facewhen learning English are presented. The paper ends with conclusions, emphasizingthat the process of second language acquisition is not at all a simple one, it is abouquet of factors which influences the final result.

Englische Entlehnungen in der Sprache der Mode und der Werbung

Author(s): Emilia Ştefan / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2024

Der Hauptgrund für das Auftreten von Anglizismen im Deutschen ist derSprachkontakt, ähnlich wie in anderen Sprachen. Durch die Analyse ihrerdiachronen Entwicklung kann man sagen, dass am Anfang Religion, Handel, Politikund später neue Innovationen und die Verbreitung der amerikanischen Kultur undder Lebensstil waren seine Hauptfaktoren. Heutzutage können wir Anglizismen inverschiedenen Bereichen des Lebens finden, von technischen und wissenschaftlichenBegriffen über Business, Werbung bis hin zu Unterhaltung und Sport. In den meistenFällen ist das Auftreten von Lehnwörtern eine bloße Notwendigkeit, da eine Spracheneue Wörter für neue Dinge braucht.Es muss jedoch auch erwähnt werden, dass esin manchen Fällen eine Frage der Mode ist, Anglizismen zu verwenden. IhrePräzision, Kürze, Lebendigkeit, Verspieltheit und Ausdrucksvielfalt machen siezweifellos zu einem bevorzugten Kommunikationsmittel, nicht nur auf Deutsch,sondern auch in anderen Sprachen.

LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF NON-HETERONORMATIVE AND TRANS PEOPLE IN POLISH YOUNG ADULT (YA) LITERATURE: THE EXAMPLE OF NATALIA OSIŃSKA’S TRILOGY AND ANOUK HERMAN’S NOVEL NIGDY NIE BĘDZIESZ SZŁO SAMO

Author(s): Magdalena Stoch / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The author focuses on literary representations of LGBT+ youth in Polish novels classi- fied as Young Adult Literature (YAL). They use a three-part framework created by Michael Cart and Christine A. Jenkins to analyse books viewed as emblematic for Polish queer YAL: Natalia Osiń- ska’s trilogy (Fanfik 2016, Slash 2017, Fluff 2019) and Anouk Herman’s novel Nigdy nie będziesz szło samo [You’ll Never Walk Alone, 2023]. When describing literary representations of coming out and queer youth subcultures, the author draws attention to the multidimensionality of the identities of the characters in this type of literary work. They are presented not only in the context of their gender identity and sexual orientation, but also through the prism of their economic situation and place of birth. The queerness of the characters is not limited to issues of gender and sexuality, but also involves challenging the norm of neurotypicality. According to the author, the novels analysed represent an interesting cultural representation of the Polish community of young people who iden- tify as gay, lesbian, transgender and non-binary, as well as their allies (parents, friends).

FROM SUPERHIGHWAY TO HYPERREALITY: THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF “ASTRAL AMERICA”

Author(s): Maxime McKenna / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

During a series of road-trips undertaken in the 1970s and 1980s, the French theorist Jean Baudrillard encountered an American West that had become a laboratory of hyperreality. In his observations about “Astral Amer- ica,” Baudrillard claims the perspective of an outside observer, but he exhibits a fascination for the space of the road that is characteristically American, if not at-times stereotypically so, begging the question: what is the link between postmodern theory and automobile infrastructure? This article interrogates the material and discursive relations between Baudrillard’s Amérique (1986; trans. 1988) and the period in the history of American automobility in which it emerges. Just as the Interstate Highway was solidifying the private car’s supremacy, the OPEC oil embargo brought the petroleum-powered, auto- mobile ideal of the good life into crisis, opening intellectual inroads for thinking the US’s hyperreal self-production while aboard the nation’s superhighways. Baudrillard’s classic work of travelogue-theory invites an infrastructural account of the postmodern moment that would situate concepts from French theory and their uptake in the American academy within a context of trans- nationally mediated transport infrastructures.

Lesen im Zeitalter der künstlichen Intelligenz. Über den Wandel einer Kulturtechnik [Reading in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. On the Transformation of a Cultural Technique]. By Florian Rötzer.

Author(s): Máté Bordás / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Lesen im Zeitalter der künstlichen Intelligenz. Über den Wandel einer Kulturtechnik [Reading in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. On the Transformation of a Cultural Technique]. By Florian Rötzer. Bielefeld: transcript, 2023. 128 pp.

Intersectionality of Queer Female Characters in Alice Oseman’s Young Adult Series of Graphic Novels Heartstopper

Author(s): Anna Kobylowska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The global success of Alice Oseman’s series of young adult graphic novels, Heart-stopper, may come as a surprise. Initially published as a webcomic on Tumblrand Tapas, it attracted an online audience of over 50 million views. The project’spublishing fundraising goal was met in just two hours, and Hachette Children’sGroup published Heartstopper: Volume One as a graphic novel in 2019, followedby four other volumes and extras, all released by 2023. While most readers andcritics have focused on the issues of male homo- and bisexuality in Heartstopper,this article seeks to analyse the multifaceted identities of trans and cisgenderfemale characters in Oseman’s graphic novel series through the lens of inter-sectionality, focusing on gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity, while address-ing the call for diversity in YA literature. Remembering that young adult lit-erature often aims to raise questions about political organisation, ideal society,and the need for social change, the reading of Oseman’s Heartstopper presentedin this paper argues that it is a part of utopian young adult literature due todisregarding many issues connected to the characters’ intersections, especiallythe experiences of women of colour.

„Książka może być pomostem w budowaniu porozumienia”. Rozmowa z Joanną Piekarską

Author(s): Weronika Kostecka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2024

“A book can be a bridge in consensus building”: A Conversation with Joanna Piekarska

Młyn na Helclów – Anna Krasnowolska, Katarzyna Kowalczuk i Michał Szczepański w rozmowie z Anną Mateją

Author(s): Anna Mateja / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

Młyn na Helclów – Anna Krasnowolska, Katarzyna Kowalczuk i Michał Szczepański w rozmowie z Anną Mateją