Způsoby literární reprezentace křesťanské alterity v české polistopadové literatuře (postkolonialistický pohled jako podaná ruka interpretaci)
TYPES OF LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF CHRISTIAN ALTERITY IN CZECH POST-NOVEMBER LITERATURE (POST-COLONIAL VIEW AS A HANDSHAKE TO INTERPRETATION

Summary/Abstract: The article is inspired by the postcolonial theory examining the totality of power and raising questions about the current relationship between the former colonizers and the former colonized and their interaction. The article argues that the situation in post-socialist countries in Central Europe is analogous to the situation in postcolonial countries and that the local literary representation of different cultural axiological paradigms may be treated in a similar way. The paper focuses on those Czech post-communist prose writers who by personal experience come from Christian traditions and whose work discursively responds to the oppression of Christian churches during the period of communist “normalization”. By the analysis of prose texts by Martin C. Putna, Jan Jandourek, Martin Fendrych, and Renata Eremiášová, the article tries to demonstrate how the repressed alterity of Christian subculture had been manifested in the Czech literature. It focuses on the question of how much the Christian episteme (in the sense of M. Foucault) is accepted and manifested in the Czech post-communist literature, and to what extent the literary reception reflects ontological and epistemological distinction between Christianity and the Church.

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