„POCTIVÍ AUTOŘI“ A „ODPADLÍCI“ ANEB STRATEGIE VYLUČOVÁNÍ V NORMALIZAČNÍ KULTURNÍ PUBLICISTICE. NEPOHODLNÍ AUTOŘI ZOBRAZENÍ NA STRÁNKÁCH TVORBY V LETECH 1969–1970
“HONEST AUTHORS” AND “RENEGADES”: ON STRATEGIES OF DISQUALIFICATION IN THE CZECH CULTURAL PUBLIC JOURNAL TVORBA AT THE BEGINNING OF NORMALIZATION (1969–1970)

Summary/Abstract: The Czech literature of the 1970’s has its own cursed poets. They were artists who refused to accept the changed authoritative conditions after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakiain August 1968 and could not (because of their democratic actions in the past) or did not want to be involved in a new political and cultural system. The new tough regime had to come to terms with their disloyalty and one of its most useful tools was the press. The present study focuses on various ways of eliminating unwanted authors from public life by means of the cultural and political journal Tvorba. It analyses literary reviews and cultural articles published in Tvorba and describes the scale of methods by which the names of “renegades” are (mis-)used at the beginning of the normalization era.

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