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Home and the World in Slovak Writing: A Small Nation's Literature in Context

by Katarina Gephardt , Charles Sabatos , Ivana Taranenková
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780228024057
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 396
  • Original Price: USD 44.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 459 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / Eastern

Literatures of small nations represent a minuscule portion of the global literary marketplace, where books written in Englishlish outnumber translated works. The struggle for visibility in relation to dominant languages and cultures is not new in Slovakia, a nation of five million whose literary history has been shaped by the influence of more widely spoken languages including Hungarian, Czech, and Russian. Home and the World in Slovak Writing brings Slovak literature out of this isolation to tell the story of how a nation's literature can survive and thrive despite a small domestic audience and relatively limited circulation in Englishlish translation. The book demonstrates how historic events such as the post-Stalin Thaw, the Prague Spring, and the Velvet Revolution moulded the Slovak canon and situates contemporary Slovak literature in broader regional and global contexts. Through case studies of the transformations and adaptations of Slovak literature, contributors examine the changing social roles of writers, the tensions between tradition and innovation, and the dynamic interactions between influences from the outside world and domestic sources of inspiration. Home and the World in Slovak Writing maps the relationship between geopolitical destiny and literary production at a critical moment. As relations between the East and the West are destabilized by war, the question of cultural identity has again become a matter of national survival in Central Europe.

Katarina Gephardt is professor of English at Kennesaw State University. Charles Sabatos is professor of English and comparative literature at Yeditepe University. Ivana Taranenková is senior research fellow and director of the Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

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