http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19613 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:17:05 GMT 2026-06-01T17:17:05Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19669 Tytuł: Review of Black Feminist Mothering in 21ˢᵗ Century Literature: I Am Not Your Mammy by Nicole Carr, Routledge, 2025, 166 pp. ISBN: 9781032719993 Autorzy: Łapińska, Magdalena Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19669 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19668 Tytuł: From Instruction to Spectacle: The Seven-Decade Evolution of American Food Television Programming Autorzy: Niewiadomska-Flis, Urszula Abstrakt: American food television has evolved from educational demonstrations in the 1940s to contemporary digital streaming programming in the twenty-first century. I trace this evolution through four key transformational periods: the foundational era of homemaker didactic instruction (1940s-1960s); Julia Child’s groundbreaking French Chef (1963), which combined education with entertainment; the cable television boom and the launch of Food Network (1990s), which focused on spectacle more than on instruction; and lastly, the digital streaming era (2000s-present), which is marked by prestige documentaries and inclusive content. By examining landmark programs from The French Chef to Chef’s Table and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, I intend to demonstrate how food television has matured from marginalized daytime programming into a sophisticated, multi-platform entertainment industry worth billions of dollars. In my analysis I discuss American politics of taste as reflected in food television programming through a few overarching concepts such as the obvious education-to-entertainment shift, “vicarious consumption,” constructing authenticity versus scripted reality, celebrity phenomenon, hybridization of food television programming, convergence of consumption (from literal/visual to economic/psychological), and democratization versus gatekeeping. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19668 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19667 Tytuł: US Hostipitality through the Lens of Chinese American Drama Autorzy: Vysotska, Natalia Abstrakt: The concept of hospitality at the global level has long been inseparable from the phenomenon of migration as a permanent feature of human history. Academics within different fields of study have used hospitality as a metaphor “to describe the often inhospitable, and even hostile, treatment by the state of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers” (Lynch and al. 15). Jacques Derrida’s portmanteau term ‘hostipitality’ emphasizes that hospitality always entails its opposite (hostility), since acts of hospitality toward some often exclude others. In the dramatic narrative of Chinese experience in the US, both the initial relative hospitality of the 1850s and the swift shift to violent racial politics culminating in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act were rooted in the vicissitudes of global capitalism and America’s expansionist aspirations. This paper explores how these moments of the official (un)welcome are represented in Chinese American drama, aiming to re-memory (and, hence, negotiate) the traumatic past through its stage re-enactment. The discussion focuses on three plays: Genny Lim’s Paper Angels (1980), David Henry Hwang’s FOB (1980), and Lloyd Suh’s The Far Country (2022). Lim’s play relies for its effect upon the unique socio-cultural fact—the poems inscribed by Chinese detainees on the walls of the West Coast immigration center on Angel Island; Hwang scrutinizes the uneasy relational dynamics between second-generation and more recent immigrants; Suh complements the dramatization of the ordeal of passing through strict immigration control with a transcontinental perspective. Each in its own way, the plays seem to bear out Lisa Lowe’s dictum that the emergence of Asian American culture as an alternative cultural site results from the state’s distancing Asian Americans from the terrain of national culture. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19667 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19666 Tytuł: Hospitality and Exclusion in the Transnational Spa of Saratoga Springs from the Late Nineteenth into the Twentieth Century Autorzy: Wood, Karl Abstrakt: The spa, understood here as a resort town offering guests a salubrious retreat into an environment simultaneously natural and urbane, operated over much of the nineteenth and into the twentieth as a transnational social space, a heterotopia in which visitors could enjoy a social environment where the rules of society were relaxed and boundaries eased, yet hardly erased. Yet distinctions between groups remained important, while others were excluded entirely. Broad cultural patterns emerged across national boundaries in this period, in Britain, France, German lands or the United States, tempered by local peculiarities of inclusion and exclusion. This paper seeks to explore how hospitality and exclusion were defined and negotiated at Saratoga Springs, New York. Founded around 1800 as an attempt to establish a resort of culture and refinement, Saratoga in its rise to prominence in the nineteenth century sought in some ways to graft class-based European patterns onto a society that saw itself as more open and egalitarian. Instead, in the second half of the nineteenth century it established limits based less in the boundaries of class than in the discourses of race, ethnicity and settler colonialism that endured well into the twentieth. To explore the transnational context, this paper draws comparisons to the German spa of Baden-Baden, a prominent and cosmopolitan destination that, like Saratoga, rose from obscurity to prominence during the same period and served as a site where elites gathered and negotiations of inclusion and exclusion took place outside the English-speaking world. This choice is intentional to highlight the diffuse and truly transnational nature of the culture of spa hospitality in this period. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19666 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z