Original scientific paper
On Slovak Writers. Hana Ponická - Literary Dissident and the Cultural Memory
Maria Vuksanović Kursar
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb
Zrinka Kovačević
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb
Abstract
The essay discusses the role of Slovak women writers as promoters of social changes on the example of dissident Hana Ponická. Ponická is a Slovak author who was persecuted for her open opposition to the communist ideology and regime in the former Czechoslovakia during the 1970s. Following Zajac’s synoptic model of the history of Slovak literature it can be established that Ponická text Lukavické zápisky, with autobiographical resonances, which addresses the period and causes of her political persecution belongs to the alternative body of literature of the second half of the 20th century in comparison to the official socialist model of writing, and, given the historical-political events that followed, occupies a permanent place in the cultural memory of the Slovaks. The analysis points to the strategies used by the totalitarian power to reproduce its ideology, ways of individual resistance to the regime and the methods of conducting supervision of and meting out punishment of citizens opposing political authorities.
Keywords
Slovak women writers; Hana Ponická; cultural memory; a synoptic model of literary history; autobiographical discourse; ideology
Hrčak ID:
201791
URI
Publication date:
19.6.2018.
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