OBRAZ NORMALIZACE V POLISTOPADOVÉ LITERATUŘE PRO DĚTI A MLÁDEŽ
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE “NORMALIZATION PERIOD” IN THE POST-1989 LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Summary/Abstract: Immediately after 1989 the public attention was aimed at issues of the development and cultivation of value criteria, which was also connected with the de-monopolization of publishing enterprise. As for literature focused on the national history, the following years mainly witnessed writers’ attempts to deal with the period of the Nazi occupation and the atmosphere of persecution in the 1950s. Among rare attempts to deal with the recent history are the artistic-educational book History of the Czech Courageous Nation and a Few Insignificant World Events (2003) by Lucie Seifertová and the picture book The Wall (2007) by Petr Sís. Neither the quantitatively poor line of the exile and samizdat literature for children and youth can provide an account of the normalization period. The only prose work of intentional nature where a current child reader could find a historically true representation of the two normalization decades is the novel Perlorodky [Pearl Oysters] by Jiří Stránský.

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