Original scientific paper
Images of the Czechs in Contemporary Croatian Culture, from Literature to Stereotypes and Back
Katica Ivanković
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The articles takes up three fictional works by Croatian authors Goran Tribuson, Dubravka Ugrešić and Zoran Ferić, all of whom deal with the Czechs and Czech culture in the successive periods of the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s. The analysis is based predominantly on the motifs which point to specific knowledge about the Czechs building upon the stereotypes persisting in Croatia, including their actual variants proceeding from the political situation in the then Czechoslovakia, and to the Czech literary tradition of the twentieth century and its reception in Croatia. All three works make intertextual references to types of the Czech literary – and later due to the Prague film school of the 1960s – film anti-hero, to the idea of the Czech humor as being grotesque and absurd, and to the mystical atmosphere of the political underworld of the period related also to the mystique of Prague.
Keywords
stereotypes; Czech literature; Czech film; Croatian writers on the Czechs and Czech culture
Hrčak ID:
249463
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2020.
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