PT Journal
AU Lollok, M
TI Intercultural Prose and the Image of Culture Shock in Contemporary Czech Literature
SO Bohemica Olomucensia
PY 2024
BP 12
EP 31
VL 16
IS 1
DI 10.5507/bo.2024.005
DE Josef Panek; Jana Guljuskina; intercultural prose; culture shock; contemporary Czech prose
AB 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 buh by Josef Panek and Jolka by Jana Guljuskina, which we consider to be the most significant in the field.
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