O WSPÓŁCZESNYCH CZESKICH NARRACJACH HISTORYCZNYCH – MIĘDZY PRZEŁAMYWANIEM TABU A OCZEKIWANIAMI NOWEGO ODBIORCY
ABOUT CONTEMPORARY CZECH HISTORICAL NARRATIONS – BETWEEN BREAKING THE TABOO AND EXPECTATIONS OF THE MODERN RECIPIENT

Summary/Abstract: The article raises the question of one of the most important problems connected to present day and modern historical education – the often exceeded thin border of untranslatability of the experience. The fact that “memory, apart from cognitive and political dimensions has also the aesthetic one” (Anna Wolff-Powêska) literally authenticates some of contemporary Czechartistic events, for example: the collection of comics Ještì jsme ve válce (We are still at war)created by various authors, the comic series Èeši (The Czechs), animated films, the controversial docu-reality show type program entitled Dovolená v protektorátu (Holidays in the Protectorate),and finally, the gaining worldwide recognition, multimedia educational project Èeskoslovensko. In the article, I would like to look at the aesthetic and formal experiments present in the representations of the twentieth-century history, as well as breaking certain (?) rules of decorum in speaking about the dramatic events of the twentieth century. Theoretical considerations complement examples of different cultural texts referring to a particular historical event – the successful attempt on Protector Reinhard Heydrich.

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