http://hdl.handle.net/11320/750 2026-08-13T18:35:43Z 2026-08-13T18:35:43Z Partyka, Jacek http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20745 2026-08-12T07:50:27Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Review of A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker 1925–2025, edited by Kevin Young, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2025, 1024 pp. ISBN: 9780593801932 (hardcover) Autorzy: Partyka, Jacek

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Moroz, Grzegorz http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20744 2026-08-12T07:37:59Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Review of Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom by Uwe Rasch, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2026, 356 pp. ISBN: 978-3-031-57608-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57609-6 Autorzy: Moroz, Grzegorz

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Niewiadomska-Flis, Urszula http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20743 2026-08-12T07:14:48Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Edible Witness: Emily Meggett’s Gullah Geechee Home Cooking as Cultural Testimony Autorzy: Niewiadomska-Flis, Urszula Abstrakt: This article reads Emily Meggett’s Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island (2022) as a form of cultural and historical testimony. I introduce the concept of “edible witness” to analyze how culinary texts produced by marginalized communities function not as peripheral artifacts but as embodied acts of knowledge-making and resistance to erasure. Drawing on Paul Connerton’s work on incorporated memory, bell hooks’s theorization of the domestic sphere as a site of political struggle, and Felman and Laub’s relational approach to testimony, I examine the structural and rhetorical features of Meggett’s cookbook—its title, dedication, prefatory sections, and visual elements—to show how they collectively challenge dominant American narratives and reclaim Gullah Geechee culinary authorship. I also consider what is at stake when Gullah recipes transition from oral tradition to written form, and how Black Southern cuisine becomes a site of contested authenticity amid ongoing cultural appropriation. Ultimately, I position Meggett’s work as a powerful counter-narrative that insists on recognizing and preserving the stories and contributions of the Gullah Geechee people.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Kottke, Dagmara http://hdl.handle.net/11320/20742 2026-08-11T10:52:43Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: A Doll’s House of Her Own: Subversion of Patriarchal Structures in Vita Sackville-West’s A Note of Explanation Autorzy: Kottke, Dagmara Abstrakt: A Note of Explanation is a fairy tale written by Vita Sackville-West for Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House library. It tells the story of the inquisitive spirit inhabiting the miniature house. The paper aims to prove that Vita Sackville-West’s fairy tale relates to patriarchal norms and structures, ultimately destabilising and subverting them. The process takes place on multiple narrative layers: character construction, space and time, and paratexts. The study is divided into three parts, each analysing one narrative level from the feminist perspective. The first part, Character Construction, discusses the feminist interpretation of the ghost and the protagonist’s traits. The second part, Space and Time, examines the spirit’s intrusion into the patriarchal space and her disruption of the traditional (linear) concept of time. In the third part, Paratexts, the title, the author’s biography and the socio-political and literary context of the work are discussed. Encapsulating all patriarchal structures destabilised in the narrative, the analysis reveals the universal dimension of the story, highlighting the role that education and motion—both spatio-temporal and intellectual—play in the pursuit of female freedom.

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