Diverse Voices: Czech Women's Writing in the Post-Communist Era
Diverse Voices: Czech Women's Writing in the Post-Communist Era

Summary/Abstract: This essay offers an overview of the diversity of women's prose writing that emerged on the Czech cultural scene in the post-communist era. To that end it briefly characterizes the work of eight Czech women authors who were born within the first two decades after World War II and began to create during the post-1968 era of 'normalization'. In this broad sense they belong to a single generation. With rare exeption their work was not officially published in their homeland until the 1990s. The writers included are: Lenka Prochazkova, Tereza Bouckova, Alexandra Berkova, Zuzanna Brabcova, Daniela Hodrova, Sylvie Richterova, Iva Pekarkova, and Eva Hauserova. The overview is followed by a concise comparative analysis of texts by three very different writers (Prochazkova, Pekarova, and Hodorova), using a feminist critical approach. There is also an appendix of works by these writers available in English translation.

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