DVĚ DEKÁDY DEMOKRACIE A LITERATURA ČESKÉHO TĚŠÍNSKA
TWO DECADES OF DEMOCRACY AND LITERATURE OF THE TĚŠÍN REGION

Summary/Abstract: Political and economical changes in Czech Republic after 1990 have a big influence on literary life of Polish national minority in Czech Republic. Those people live in the Czech Silesia in the area of Czech Těšín. The autors write in Polish language and Czech language as well as in dialect from the Czech Těšín. Howewer, the youngest generation use move often dialect from Těšín than Polish. Some literary institutions appeared in Czech Republic and Zaolzie after 1990. A lot of writers are simultaneously members of such institutions in Czech Republic and in Poland. Since that time, polish writers from Czech Těšín have had more possibilities to publicate their literature. Polish minority has integrated in the first place with polish national culture for about 80 years. In last 10 years the relations with czech cultural society became stronger. The youngest generation of writers assimilates – they write in Polish as well as in Czech language (Lech Przeczek, Renata Putzlacher, Bogdan Trojak). Life between two cultures enriches creativity of polish writers with big artistic ambitions. Postmodernism becomes more and more connected with national discourse. Because of this, a provincionalism of cultural life of polish minority becomes smaller. Relatively rich cultural and social activity of polish writers from Zaolzie is an intermediator between two nations – it helps to bequealth cultural values.The most intensive expansion of Polish cultural, culturally-social and educational life in the Český Těšín region started in the period between the two world wars when some elements of the cultural life started to stabilize and some others only started to form. A certain type of cultural life gradually started to develop; despite of the existence of formal obstacles, there were some conditions under which a certain literary culture evolved. Polish literature in the Český Těšín region did not have any aspirations to surmount a stage of regional writings, which met the specific needs of the region’s inhabitants. There was no literary criticism in the region of Český Těšín; that would determine norms, regulations, rules and valuations necessary for the standard existence of literary life. There did not arise any academic and special research centers, where some of the Polish experts (scholars, intellectuals, specialists) would work. It was only about local types of literary activities, which were not united overall. There were a lot of positive elements helping to develop a Polish “minority” culture and literature, but on the other side there existed many limitations caused by specific political conditions. The Author deals also of determinates of identification of polish living in the Czech’s Silesian Part area. As elements of identification the Author accepted language, place of living, and tradition of families of Silesian writers families (consciousness about their polish roots), participation of cultural, political life and education

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