RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Lollok, Marek
T1 Intercultural Prose and the Image of Culture Shock in Contemporary Czech Literature
JF Bohemica Olomucensia
YR 2024
VO 16
IS 1
SP 12
OP 31
DO 10.5507/bo.2024.005
UL https://bohemica.upol.cz/artkey/boh-202401-0002.php
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 bůh by Josef Pánek and Jolka by Jana Guljuškina, which we consider to be the most significant in the field.