Czech Writers on the Trauma of Exile

Aleksandra Korda-Petrović

doi:10.18778/8331-033-6

Czech Writers on the Trauma of Exile

Aleksandra Korda-Petrović

University of Belgrade, Faculty od Philology, Department of Slavic Philology

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8300-0609 (unauthenticated)

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Migrations in the Slavic Cultural Space. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day

Series: Series Ceranea

Pages: 277-288

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-033-6.19

Keywords: migracja, migracja etnosu serbskiego w XVI-XIII wieku, historia Słowian południowych zachodnich wschodnich, asymilacja, emigracja w literaturze

Published: 30 December 2022

Categories: History, Open Access

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At various points in history, Czech writers were forced to live in exile or chose to emigrate voluntarily. Using a few selected examples, the paper analyses the personal perspective on exile reflected through the phenomenon of nostalgia (as in the example of Czech authors until the 20^th century), the quest for personal and creative freedom (as in the example of Czech dissident writers) and the modern perspective on migrations and migrants (as in the example of a modern novel). The paper represents an attempt to distinguish between different forms of trauma driving the urge to leave one’s homeland and face another, different culture. Special attention is paid to the questions of bilingualism, biliteracy and binationalism, which become a key for the interpretation of the works of the selected Czech authors. The theoretical starting point is found in the works of Ivan Dorovski, Helena Koskova and Aleksandar Ilić.

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Korda-Petrović, Aleksandra. 2022. “Czech Writers on the Trauma of Exile”. In Migrations in the Slavic Cultural Space. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day, edited by Zofia A. Brzozowska, Piotr Kręzel, and Izabela Lis-Wielgosz, 10:277-88. Series Ceranea. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-033-6.19.