Book reviews

Izabella Penier; Monika Sosnowska; Tamara Skalska

doi:10.2478/v10223-012-0058-9

Authors

Izabella Penier Uniwersytet Łódzki
Monika Sosnowska Uniwersytet Łódzki
Tamara Skalska Uniwersytet Łódzki

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/v10223-012-0058-9

Abstract

Richard Gott, Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt, London & New York: Verso, 2011, pp. 568, ISBN: 9781844677382

Reghina Dascal, Ed., Episodes from the History of Undoing. The Heritage of Female Subversiveness, Newcasle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, ISBN: 1-4438-3611-7

Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk, Studies in 20th Century Literary/Cultural Britain, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kardynała Wszyńskiego, 2011, pp. 440, ISBN 978-83-7072-707-9

Man, Chicks are Just Different (Baby są jakieś inne) dir. Marek Koterski, Poland, 2011, 90 min.

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Author Biography

Izabella Penier, Uniwersytet Łódzki

Izabella Penier is a PhD in American literature. Currently her research is focused on the prospects and potential rewards of breaking down theoretical and disciplinary barriers that have tended to separate African American and postcolonial scholarship. It particularly focuses on the transformations that Black studies has recently undergone due to critical interventions from global frameworks of analysis such as postcolonialism, cultural studies, Black Atlantic and diaspora studies. Her research not only examines the commonalities and differences between these discourses, but it also looks at the American Black feminist scholarship through the lenses of postcolonial gender-and nation studies. It makes use of the body of work of postcolonial feminist scholars to examine the interrelationship of gender and black cultural nationalism. Her work is based on the literary output of Afro-American, Afro- Caribbean and Black British writers. She has published textbooks (on British and American history, literary theory), a monograph (Ideological and Discursive Aspects of Magical Realism in Literary Quest for Afro- American Identity), articles and book reviews.