Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture

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Introduction
Negative Mobilities (Julia Leyda)
Eye(s) in the Sky: Icons of War and Techno-Gaze in Contemporary Audiovisual Culture (Paweł Frelik)
Portraits Painterly and Poetic: John Ashbery and Gerhard Richter (Paulina Ambroży)
The Dynamic Space of Divinity and Ontology in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (Andrew J. Ploeg)
Self-Expression and Sexual Repression in Joyce Carol Oates’s “The White Cat” and Beasts (Joanna Stolarek)
A Space in-between Genders: Rethinking the American Bildungsroman from an Intersex Perspective (Elli Kyrmanidou)
Expressing the Uncertainty, Reflecting Memory: The Role of Memorabilia in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (Aleksandra Kamińska)
Representation of Asexuality in The Big Bang Theory (Petra Filipová)
#effyourbeautystandards: Body Positivity Movement as an Expression of Feminist Identity (Olga Korytowska)
Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County (Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk)
Affect and Memory in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child (Patrycja Antoszek)
A Sense of Otherness: Auditory-Gustatory Synesthesia and Cultural Identity in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth (Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis)
Text, Image and Sound: Artistic Tiers in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams (Izabella Kimak)
A New Take on “The Mournful and Never Ending Remembrance”: Personal Loss and the Trauma of History in E. L. Doctorow’s Andrew’s Brain (Sławomir Studniarz)
Repression and Control in a Post-Panoptic Anti-Utopian State: The Radch Empire in Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch Trilogy (Anna Gilarek)
Emotion Management and Damage Control: Navigating Global Reality in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy (Julia Nikiel)
Player as a Victim of Repression and a Tool of Oppression in the Totalitarian World of Papers, Please (Paweł Kołtuniak)
Notes on the Contributors