We Don’t Know What We Want”: The Ups and Downs of Global Travel in Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Małgorzata Rutkowska

“…Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) can be read as a (post) modern voice in the ongoing debate on educational, transformative and redemptive po- tential of foreign travel for the young Americans in the late 1990s. The article focuses on representation of global travel experience in the novel employing American Old World journey conventions on the one hand and tourism-travel dichotomy on the other. …”
Get full text

Intrusion et exclusion dans les romans politiques de Trollope by Laurent Bury

“…In The Duke’s Children (1880), one finds a more surprising case of opening to the Other, when Plantagenet Palliser’s son, Lord Silverbridge, marries a young American commoner. While Trollope multiplies the metaphors expressive of social exclusion, the narration itself seems to open itself to the reader so as to include the reader within the writer’s laboratory.…”
Get full text

Up from the Depths: The Cultural Appropriation of Godzilla in 1970s American Animation and Comics by C. Scott Maravilla

“…The approach taken by Marvel and Hanna-Barbera to adapting Godzilla for a young American audience is a form of cultural appropriation. …”
Get full text

Le ‘Gouffre du Colorado’ de Thomas Moran : Carrefour d’influences ou centre de diffusion ? by Wendy Harding, Jacky Martin

“…Drawing on actor-network theory, particularly as developed by Bruno Latour, this article situates Thomas Moran’s “The Chasm of the Colorado” (1873-74), in relation to contemporaneous events – notably Powell’s explorations of the Colorado River (1869; 1872) and Congress’s purchase of Moran’s painting (1874) – to show how it was taken up in the project of defining the territory of the young American republic. To become hegemonic, the territorial network in which the painting partakes had to fulfill the three functions of discovery, diffusion and potentiality. …”
Get full text

People against the challenges of the era: The English Department at the Jagiellonian University (1945–1952) – an outline of the problem by Tomasz Pudłocki

“…Thanks to the help of the New York Kosciuszko Foundation, the Department received a collection of several thousands of books, a few young American grantees of the Foundation joined the teaching staff, and some of the outstanding academics and students (e.g. …”
Get full text

Association of food security with cardiometabolic health during young adulthood: cross-sectional comparison of American Indian adults with other racial/ethnic groups by Cassandra J Nikolaus, Anna Zamora-Kapoor, Luciana E Hebert, Ka'imi Sinclair

“…Relationships among risk of food insecurity, sociodemographic characteristics and diabetes varied across models stratified by race and ethnicity.Conclusions Results suggest that elevated risk of food insecurity is present in young American Indian adults, but its relationship with cardiometabolic health is unclear. …”
Get full text