Editorial Note

In this issue of Polish American Studies, five authors present their research on different aspects of history and culture. In the first article, David J. Jackson interrogates the impact of the New Ethnicity movement in the 1970s, focusing on the reaction of Polish Americans to certain aspects of music, food, and other cultural events. In particular, Jackson investigates the responses to two popular songs from that period, “My Melody of Love” by Bobby Vinton and “Love and Peace Polka” by Happy Louie (Dusseault).The next two articles discuss literary output of Witold Gombrowicz, a Polish exile writer, who wrote most of his books during an exile in Argentina after the outbreak of World War II, and of John Guzlowski, a poet and writer who represents the displaced persons generation in the United States in the postwar period. Silvia Dapía analyzes Gombrowicz's understanding of the emotion of resentment, expressed in his short story “A Premeditated Crime.” Izabella Kimak looks at the two collections of writing by John Guzlowski from the point of view of memory studies.Anna Podciborska examines Ameryka, a Polish-language magazine published by the US Information Agency in Poland from 1959 to 1992, and its presentation of American Polonia. Marek Skurski considers the work of Jerzy Lerski, a Polish political émigré in the United States after World War II, during his time in Japan in the 1950s.The review article by John J. Bukowczyk focuses on three recently published books by Adam Walaszek, Joanna Wojdon, and Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann and James S. Pula.