http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18209 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:18:58 GMT 2026-06-01T15:18:58Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18219 Tytuł: Review of Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature by Matthias Klestil, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 307 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-82102-9 Autorzy: Łapińska, Magdalena Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18219 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18218 Tytuł: Review of Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes by Begoña Simal-González, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; XV, 273 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-35618-7 Autorzy: Jarmołowicz-Dziekońska, Małgorzata Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18218 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18217 Tytuł: At the Crossroads of Life and Death: The Body in Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020) Autorzy: Kmita, Karolina Abstrakt: This article aims to analyze the representation of embodiment in Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020). Exploring the novel’s narrative, this paper argues that Emezi employs Igbo spiritual beliefs to dismantle gender taxonomy rooted in the Western episteme. Furthermore, because the novel presents Vivek’s existence as deviating from the linear trajectory of human life, the main character’s embodied form transcends the notion of materiality. In this light, the main protagonist’s departure from life emerges as a form of emancipation from the rigid boundaries of liberal humanist conceptualizations of the body. Following the footsteps of their Nigerian literary predecessors, Emezi portrays life on Earth as a cyclical process, interweaving both the living and the dead. Given the above, Vivek’s corporeal death is not presented as a demise, but rather as a step towards imagining a world in which the existence of African queer bodies is not tainted with precariousness. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18217 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18216 Tytuł: Behind the Appearances: Spaces and Places in Gerald Murnane’s The Plains (1982) Autorzy: Naporowski, Mateusz Abstrakt: Gerald Murnane’s The Plains (1982) depicts a world in which the landscape governs both the characters’ and the readers’ perceptions. Analyzing the novel’s duplicities and peculiarities, as well as the author’s individual approach to fiction writing, the article identifies sources for the plains’ uniqueness. Murnane’s language, along with the writing process, is a bearer of the quality termed uncanniness which shapes the (un)reality of The Plains by employing contrasts and evoking the feeling of un/familiarity in the reader. Following the trope of in-betweenness, the article views the novel through the prism of liminality, treating its various components as sites of transformation. As the further analysis of both the spaces/places of the novel and the protagonist-narrator’s personal experience illustrates, the plains subvert this seemingly linear process of transformation and, opposing their occupants’ attempts to gain control, prove their own existence as the influential, yet elusive, force on the novel’s reality. In essence, the article aims to explore Murnane’s portrayal of this idiosyncratic landscape, probing the applicability of capturing or defining the plains, be it by the protagonist’s camera and senses or our theoretical tools. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18216 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z