Podoby tela a telesnosti v dramatickej tvorbe Jany Bodnárovej
Portraying the body and physicality in the dramatic work of Jana Bodnárová

Summary/Abstract: Motifs of the body and physicality figure in the literary work of writer Jana Bodnárová (b. 1950) as thematic starting points and strategic analytical tools. The essay analyses Bodnárová’s plays Staroba en noir ([Old age en noir] 2022) and Kolísky ([Cradles] 2012) which accentuate the issues of the body and corporeality from the perspective of women’s personal empirical experiences of motherhood, abortion, and old age in line with feminist tendencies. In these plays, Bodnárová portrays the human body as lived and consciously experienced in relation to its surroundings, but also as finite and changeable. She presents the female body as a social and political object through which she draws attention to the negative influence of patriarchal power and its structures. The theoretical framework of the essay is based on a combination of phenomenology, anthropology, and feminist theory. Another line of interpretation the article follows is the depiction of thematic shifts between the two plays and the author’s previous work (especially the play Dievča z morského dna [The girl from the bottom of the sea] 2008), also concentrating on the questioning of the stereotype of women’s innate desire for motherhood.

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