The contributors understand the wild zone as denoting the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.) which is/was marginalized in American society. Reaching far beyond the boundaries of original agenda (Edwin Ardener¿s and Elaine Showalter¿s), the term¿s applicability has been significantly enlarged. Its fluidity or fuzziness, however, ought to be taken as a blessing: in the rapidly changing contemporary («liquid») world it is the language that needs to keep up with new circumstances and developments, not the other way round.

Contents: Marek Wilczynski: Introduction: Moving Wild Zones - Aneta Dybska: An Outlandish Idea or a Staple of Growth? Contradictory Visions of Urban Gardening in Documentary Films about Detroit and Philadelphia - Dorota Golanska: Importing Trauma/Reclaiming the «Wild»: Holocaust Memory in the US - Karl Wood: Black Flight, or A Tale of Two Tales - Francesca de Lucia: Chinatown as a Wild Zone in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea - Karolina Majkowska: The Dominican Republic as a Wild Zone in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz - Dominika Ferens: «Where the Wild Things Are»: Excursions into Mixed-Race Literature through Affect Theory - Ewa Antoszek: Various Expressions of Wild Zones: Chicana Identity in Selected Productions by Mexican-American Female Rap and Hip Hop Artists - Katarzyna Macedulska: Stories from the Wild Zone: Some Recent Developments of the American Memoir by Women - Agnieszka Lobodziec: (De)Marginalizations of Wild Zones in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Café - Natalia Vysotska: «Deathly afraid of being anything but normal»: Exploring the «Wild Zone» of Fat Female Body in Neil LaBute's Fat Pig - Yuri Stulov: Osage Avenue, Philadelphia Fire, and Civil Disobedience through Shakespeare's The Tempest - Pawel Frelik: From Visual Thoughtforms to Bauharoque: Paul Laffoley's Renegade Science Fiction Art - Jerzy Kamionowski: She a BaddDDD Sistuh: Sonia Sanchez as a Wild Zone Poet - Oskar Zasada: The Bizarre Tale of a Masked Rogue, or the Quixotic Wild Zone in James Gunn's Super - Kirk Palmer: Ishmael in the Wild - Krystyna Mazur: Queering the Wild Zone with Experimental Filmmakers: Barbara Hammer, Liz Rosenfeld, and Wu Tsang - Justyna Kociatkiewicz: Taming the Wild Zone: The Paradoxes of the Conspiracy Narrative - Malgorzata Poks: Conspiracy of Faith on the Margins of Empire: Christian Anarchism as a «Wild Zone» in Post-Countercultural America - Aleksandra M. Rózalska: Muslim Cultures as the «Wild Zone»: Representations of Muslim Women in American Television Series after 9/11 - Pawel Stachura: Marianne Moore's Zoning of Germany: On Moore's Translation of Adalbert Stifter's «Rock Crystal» - Mariusz Marszalski: Robinson Jeffers' Ecological Poetry: Human Culture in the Wild Zone - Laura Suchostawska: Wildlife, Not So Wild Metaphors: Personification of Animals and Plants in Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac - Tomasz Basiuk: Shameless (US) as Political Allegory. An Interclass Prospect.