%0 Journal Article
%T Diverse Voices: Czech Women¡¯s Writing in the Post-Communist Era
%A Elena SOKOL
%J Argument : Biannual Philosophical Journal
%D 2012
%I Pedagogical University of Cracow
%X This essay offers an overview of the diversity of women¡¯s prose writing that emerged on the Czech cultural scene in the post-communist era. To that end it briefly characterizes the work of eight Czech women authors who were born within the first two decades after World War II and began to create during the post-1968 era of ¡®normalization¡¯. In this broad sense they belong to a single generation. With rare exception their work was not officially published in their homeland until the 1990s. The writers included are: Lenka Proch¨¢zkov¨¢, Tereza Bou kov¨¢, Alexandra Berkov¨¢, Zuzana Brabcov¨¢, Daniela Hodrov¨¢, Sylvie Richterov¨¢, Iva Pek¨¢rkov¨¢, and Eva Hauserov¨¢. The overview is followed by a concise comparative analysis of texts by three very different writers (Proch¨¢zkov¨¢, Pek¨¢rkov¨¢, and Hodrov¨¢), using a feminist critical approach. There is also an appendix of works by these writers available in English translation.
%K Czech culture
%K women¡¯s writing
%K feminist literary criticism
%K feminism
%K gender
%K post-communism
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