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Wywiad z egipskim historykiem Ahmadem Zakarijją asz-Szalakiem na temat sytuacji Egiptu pod okupacją Turcji Osmańskiej, jej negatywnego wpływu na rozwój cywilizacyjny kraju i modernizacji, którą zapoczątkowały rządy dynastii Muhammada Alego. Uczony podkreśla znaczenie kultury tworzonej w okresie rządów monarchii do wybuchu rewolucji 1952 roku dla odrodzenia Egiptu. Argumentuje, że jego tożsamość jest produktem różnych wpływów kulturowych i nie powinna być przez nikogo zawłaszczana.

Analiza historyczno-literacka modernizacji egipskiej i konfliktu wokół niej w obszarze kultury Bliskiego Wschodu, w której Egipt odgrywa rolę wiodącą, polemiczna w stosunku do wybranych tez z dziedziny studiów postkolonialnych. Artykuł omawia, w jaki sposób mocarstwa kolonialne wykorzystywały w przeszłości "strategie modernizacyjne" i "antymodernizacyjne" do realizowania swoich interesów w regionie i argumentuje, że ten sam konflikt odtwarzany jest dziś za pomocą dyskursu islamofobii, gender i tzw. "cancel culture".

In Black and White Agnieszka Piotrowska presents a unique insight into the contemporary arts scene in Zimbabwe – an area that has received very limited coverage in research and the media. The book combines theory with literature, film, politics and culture and takes a psychosocial and psychoanalytic perspective to achieve a truly interdisciplinary analysis. Piotrowska focuses in particular on the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) as well as the cinema, featuring the work of Rumbi Katedza and Joe Njagu. Her personal experience of time spent in Harare, working in collaborative relationships with Zimbabwean artists and filmmakers, informs the book throughout. It features examples of their creative work on the ground and examines the impact it has had on the community and the local media. Piotrowska uses her experiences to analyse concepts of trauma and post-colonialism in Zimbabwe and interrogates her position as a stranger there, questioning patriarchal notions of belonging and authority. Black and White also presents a different perspective on convergences in the work of Doris Lessing and iconic Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, and how it might be relevant to contemporary race relations. Black and White will be intriguing reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and psychotherapeutically engaged scholars, film makers, academics and students of post-colonial studies, film studies, cultural studies, psychosocial studies and applied philosophy.

For Freud, famously, the feminine was a dark continent, or a riddle without an answer. This understanding concerns man's relationship to the question of 'woman' but femininity is also a matter of sexuality and gender and therefore of identity and experience. Drawing together leading academics, including film and literary scholars, clinicians and artists from diverse backgrounds, Femininity and Psychoanalysis: Cinema, Culture, Theory speaks to the continued relevance of psychoanalytic understanding in a social and political landscape where ideas of gender and sexuality are undergoing profound changes. This transdisciplinary collection crosses boundaries between clinical and psychological discourse and arts and humanities fields to approach the topic of femininity from a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives. From object relations, to Lacan, to queer theory, the essays here revisit and rethink the debates over what the feminine might be. The volume presents a major new work by leading feminist film scholar, Elizabeth Cowie, in which she presents a first intervention on the topic of film and the feminine for over 20 years, as well as a key essay by the prominent artist and psychoanalyst, Bracha Ettinger. Written by an international selection of contributors, this collection is an indispensable tool for film and literary scholars engaged with psychoanalysts and anybody interested in different approaches to the question of the feminine.