Interkulturní prózy a obraz kulturního šoku v současné české literatuře
| Title in English | Intercultural Prose and the Image of Culture Shock in Contemporary Czech Literature |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Bohemica Olomucensia |
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| web | https://bohemica.upol.cz/artkey/boh-202401-0002_interkulturni-prozy-a-obraz-kulturniho-soku-v-soucasne-ceske-literature.php |
| Keywords | Josef Pánek; Jana Guljuškina; intercultural prose; culture shock; contemporary Czech prose |
| Description | The paper explores the topic of intercultural prose as a highly productive and differentiated stream of contemporary Czech literature. Their authors draw inspiration mainly from their own biographies, emphasizing various sub-themes in different genre modifications. The common base of these works is some kind of confrontation of different cultures, mostly represented by the subjective perspective of a particular character, staying often "on the verge", taking the role of an observer or outsider. A frequent motif is the phenomenon of culture shock in its various stages and forms, as a natural reaction to encountering another/different/foreign culture. In 2022, several intercultural prose novels were published; in our paper we contextualize and characterize the novels Jsem jejich bůh by Josef Pánek and Jolka by Jana Guljuškina, which we consider to be the most significant in the field. |