Exile in Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Exile in Julia Alvarez's novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is polymorphous and incremental. It involves politics, culture, race, gender, ethics, ontology and language. If homelessness haunts the narrative, h...

Performans zmediatyzowany. Hot or not?

Zasiedlenie polskiej blogosfery przez digital imigrants. O cyfrowych aktywnościach popkulturowych

Whaddya rebellin’ against? Youth Rebellion and Domesticity in The Wild One and Rebel Without a Cause

The article focuses on the conflict between youth and domestic values in 1950s America on the example of the movies The Wild One and Rebel Without a Cause. Using elements of subcultural studies, the films are discussed a...

Thoreau’s Surreal Imagery of Homemaking and Mumford’s Myth of the Machine

The article discusses Henry David Thoreau’s domestic spatial imagery in Walden, in terms of Bachelard’s poetics of space, as a set of angles, nests, crusts, and shells. The analysis identifies uncanny similarities betwee...