Století cest na Slovensko: na okraj jednoho česko-slovenského dialogu

• Authors: Jana Pátková

Title variants

EN

A century of journeys to Slovakia: on the margins of a Czech-Slovak dialogue

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper focuses on the literary representation of Slovakia in selected travelogues by Czech authors. The subject of the research is that of cultural stereotypes, images of the other, and constructions of us and them. The corpus of travelogues covers the period from the 1830s to the end of the 1930s. The methodological framework for analysing travelogues includes several diverse approaches. In addition to literaryhistory classification, the study employs an imagological approach while also taking into account an approach based on postcolonial theories in the context of the interpretation of cultural stereotypes. The material is divided into four historical periods with regard to the form and changing face of Czech-Slovak dialogue. Through the travelogue material under review we can analyse how the image of Slovakia within the Czech cultural myth of Slovakia has been shaped and transformed over the course of a century.

Keywords

CS

cestopis; imagologie; česko-slovenské vztahy; česko-slovenská vzájemnost; Československá republika

EN

travelogue; imagology; Czech-Slovak relations; Czech-Slovak mutuality; Czechoslovak Republic

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 195-211
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jana Pátková

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3/1420, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic