Hemispheric and Transoceanic Narratives of American Travels: An Introduction

Adam Pisarek; Barbara Orzeł

doi:10.31261/rias.17584

Published: 2024-06-02

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2024)

Hemispheric and Transoceanic Narratives of American Travels: An Introduction

Adam Pisarek

, Barbara Orzeł

Section: INTRO

https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.17584

Abstract

Hemispheric and transoceanic narratives of American travels originated amidst an almost infinite, multidirectional, transoceanic mobility of people, goods, and lifestyles. Such multiplicity, impossible to reduce to a few organizing principles, defies confinement within any single explanatory framework. To meet this challenge, therefore, we open RIAS to this abundance, taking a step toward the decolonization of the narrative(s) of hemispheric and transoceanic American travels and of thereto related research. Embracing the non-homogeneity of the plethora of the scattered, and sometimes incoherent narratives—whose functions (and functionalizations) change, and whose perspectives vary—we emphasize the polyphony of voices. To decolonize such a multifaceted discourse, in this issue of RIAS we gathered articles which decentralize the conceptualization of travel narratives as necessarily bound with the idea of representation, disentangle the intertwined perspectives from which transoceanic narratives emerge and answer again to the question what it means to travel.

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Review of International American Studies , Introduction , travel narratives , decolonial studies , socio-cultural dynamics of migration , narrative history

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Adam Pisarek

adam.pisarek@us.edu.pl
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University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland Poland

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Adam Pisarek is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He is author of Polish Hospitality. On materiality of an idea (University of Silesia Press, 2014) and co-author of To Salvage. Zofia Rydet and vernacular photography (University of Lodz, 2020). His recent research and writings are concerned with ecology of knowledges and relational patterns of more-than-human waterworlds.

Barbara Orzeł

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7298-3155

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University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland Poland

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Barbara Orzeł is an assistant professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies of the University of Silesia. She holds a PhD in cultural studies. Her broad research and teaching interests include digital humanities, media anthropology, sociology of fashion, sociology of consumption, media linguistics, and public relations. She is the author of Crises, media and emotions. Modelling public moods in the age of fake news and artificial intelligence (will be published in 2025), Cultural and social contexts of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Katowice 2021), Mobile Application as a cultural phenomenon (Katowice 2017), and The Appleization of Culture. Changing communication behavior in the context of new media (Katowice 2014). She was also the editor of the volume What is new in new media? Transformations, perspectives, expectations (Katowice 2019).

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