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The main purpose of this volume is to look into a wide spectrum of artistic ventures which provoke, challenge habitual thinking, and cross boundaries. The essays offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective and deal with creative acts of transgression from a broad range of fields: literature, theatre, visual art, film, and others.

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Contents: Izabella Penier/Anna Suwalska-Kolecka: Art, Ethics, and Provocation - Katarzyna Smyczynska: Circling Around the Clock Tower: A Visual (Her) story of People through Time - Agata Sitko: Cut and Paste. Dreamscapes of Joseph Cornell - Zbigniew Maszewski: Tomás Rivera´s Vignettes and the Tradition of American. Modernist Fiction: Hemingway and Faulkner - Beata Lisowska: Cinema and Anthropology. Film as a Source of Knowledge - Jakub Ligor: The Coen Brothers´ Fargo as a Transgressive Comedy - Izabela Lapinska/Kaja Lapinska: A Creative Act of "Expropriation" - Justyna Stepien: "Beyond the Edge of the Frame." Transgression and the Aesthetics of Nostalgia in Derek Jarman´s Caravaggio - Izabella Penier: Black Is, Black Ain´t: Isaac Julien´s Looking for Langston - Katarzyna Piotrowska: Demystifying Common Pain in Linda Hogan´s The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir - Andrzej Dorobek: Polish Acid Rock Approximations - Jadwiga Maszewska: Ellen Glasgow as a Short Story Writer - A Feminist Rebel or a Southern Conservative? "Between Two Shores" (1897) and "Dare´s Gift" (1917) - Anna Frackowicz: Crossing the Boundaries of the Body. Transgression or a Continuum - Anna Suwalska-Kolecka: Warlikowski Provokes. Gender in Theatrum Mundi in his Production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw.

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Anna Suwalska-Kolecka is a Senior Lecturer at the State School of Higher Professional Education in Plock, Poland. She has published in the areas of modern British and American drama, with a particular emphasis on Beckett, Albee, Stoppard, and Churchill. Her research interests include the construction and representation of space, the surreal flights from realism on contemporary stages, and physical theatre.
Izabella Penier studied American literature and works as Post-doc at the University of Lódz, Poland. Her research focuses on African American and postcolonial scholarship. It particularly concerns the transformations that Black studies have recently undergone due to critical interventions from global frameworks of analysis such as postcolonialism, cultural studies, Black Atlantic, and diaspora studies.

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