Отвъд митология и идеология? („Женската“ априлска лирика” от 60-те)
Beyond mythology and ideology? The "womans" April lyrics" of the 60s

Author(s): Magdalena Kostova-Panayotova
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: poetry; April generation; literary canon; woman writing
Summary/Abstract: The myth about the so-called “April generation” in Bulgarian poetry is acentral myth that unites a group of poets whose debut works appeared in the late 1950s andearly 1960s. Striving for their integration, they developed ideas and notions of literature as asocial institution. Despite the differences in their age and aesthetic quest, these poetsgenerally took on the April connotations in their sense of nationalization and legitimacy – afact that made many of them wish in the 1970s and 1980s to be included in the list of “Aprilhearts” as a later echo of this poetic phenomenon, which guaranteed them theacknowledgement that they were essential and important literary figures. Beyond theirconjunctoral activities, part of the aesthetic practice of these poets contributed to the“thawing” and breaking up of some clichés that forcibly constricted literature. If one looks atthe lists of “April poets” from the late 1950s and the 1960s it probably will not be a greatsurprise that one will not find many female names there. Not a great surprise, having inmind that the women in the Bulgarian literary canon by and large cannot be considered arepresentative group, regardless of the fact how essential, colourful, and creative theirliterary works are, or are not

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