America scapes. Americans in/and their diverse sceneries

Introduction
Indigenous Landscapes

Continuance for all: land, culture, community - an indigenous American perspective
Simon J. Ortiz

Mindscapes

Between the room and the outside: the folded landscapes of thought in Paul Auster s narratives of crisis
Robert Sikora

"Extended consciousness:" the landscape of dog-human relations in recent American dog memoirs
Małgorzata Rutkowska

"Why i have a wet footprint on top of my mind:" the world, the text, and the subject in Thomas Merton s The Geography of Lograire
Małgorzata Poks

Mediascapes

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Zuzanna Ładyga

Spatial disruption as a tool of cultural critique in Maya Deren s Study in Choreography for Camera
Krystyna Mazur

"The frenzy of the visible - spectacular storytelling in contemporary Hollywood"
Paweł Frelik

Ethnicspaces

Constructing nomadic identities - the role(s) of the border in Escandón s Esperanza s Box of Saints
Ewa Antoszek

Science fiction and the experience of exile in the works of Junot Díaz
Karolina Majkowska

Landscapes

Affective landscapes: theoretical reflections on the operation of the 9/11 memorial in New York city
Dorota Golańska

Spacelessness limited: translocation of spaces after the attacks of 9/11
Anna Porębska

Postmodern landscapes

Delineating Pynchon s timescapes: time and photography in Against The Day
Arkadiusz Misztal

Influences of media and consumerism on collective and individual perception in Don DeLillo s White Noise and writing of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Jean Baudrillard
Agnieszka Puchalska

Postcards to America: landscape, mindscape and narrative devices in Don Delillo s Libra
Justyna Kociatkiewicz

Artscapes

From Cole s nature to Sheeler s factory; or on the diminution of man in some american spaces
Tadeusz Rachwał

Re-emergences: the afterlife of american landscape imagery in 20th and 21st century art and visual culture
Filip Lipiński

Baroque spaces

Baroque landscapes: the spectacle of America
David R . Castillo

The sovereign, the martyr and the intriguer: baroque scene and political modernity in Robert Penn Warren s All The King s Men
Joseph Kuhn

Social/political spaces

Who s melting in the suburban pot? Diversity in the chicago suburbs
Karl Wood

Barack Obama s use of the feminine rhetorical style in connecting with diverse audiences
Amanda L. Henley and Robert Westerfelhaus

How to become famous in rural arkansas: the Duggar family s extreme makeover on 19 Kids And Counting
Justyna Włodarczyk

Cityscapes

Between fordism and flexible accumulation: towards the chronotope of a post-industrial "Ghost Town"
Kamil Rusiłowicz

The struggle for the "right to the city" in Sarah Schulman s new york novels People In Trouble (1990) and Rat Bohemia (1995)
Aneta Dybska

Architectural spaces

A past merely imagined - gothic revival architecture in early 20th century united states
Olga Grądziel

To humanize architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright s concept of home in T.C. Boyle s The Women
Ewa Fiutka

Notes on Contributors