{"id":566,"date":"2025-03-06T09:44:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T08:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/?p=566"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:40:44","slug":"home-and-the-world-in-slovak-writing-or-how-to-get-the-literature-of-a-small-nation-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/home-and-the-world-in-slovak-writing-or-how-to-get-the-literature-of-a-small-nation-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Home and the World in Slovak Writing or How to get the literature of a small nation to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 4 March 2025, the unique English-language scholarly publication Home and the World in Slovak Writing. A Small Nation\u2019s Literature in Context <\/em>goes on sale. It was written under the direction of the editorial trio of Katarina Gephardt, Ivana Taranenkov\u00e1 and Charles Sabatos, who have collaborated with local and international Slovak and Slavic scholars. A significant contribution to the publication was made by the staff of the Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis collective monograph presents a comprehensive picture of Slovak literature to the English-speaking audience, placing it in global contexts and entering into dialogue with the international scholarly community. Since the publication of History of Slovak Literature<\/em> (Peter Petro) in 1997, this is the first work of this kind, and therefore it is of great importance for the representation of our culture,\u201d said Ivana Taranenkov\u00e1, co-editor of the book.<\/p>\n

Literatures of small nations represent a minuscule portion of the global literary marketplace, but this publication demonstrates how a nation\u2019s literature can survive and thrive despite a small domestic audience and relatively limited circulation in the global, Anglophone marketplace.<\/p>\n

The publication comes after several years of work by a team of scientists at the renowned Canadian publishing house McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press<\/a>. The book demonstrates how historic events such as the post-Stalin Thaw, the Prague Spring, and the Velvet Revolution moulded the Slovak canon and at the same time brings a new perspective on Slovak literature after 1989, contributes to the knowledge within literary Slovak studies and adapts the interpretation of the issue to a global scientific audience.<\/p>\n

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CONTENT:
\nForeword: Slovak Literature and Central Europe<\/strong>
\nDaniel W. Pratt
\nAcknowledgments <\/strong>
\nIntroduction<\/strong>
\nKatarina Gephardt, Charles Sabatos, and Ivana Taranenkov\u00e1
\n1 Slovak Literature and the Post-Stalin Liberalization, 1956\u201370<\/strong>
\nRajendra A. Chitnis
\n2 Literature of the Transition: Between Neo-modernism and Postmodernism<\/strong>
\nPeter Darovec
\n3 Writing the Self from Autobiography to Autofiction<\/strong>
\nIvana Taranenkov\u00e1
\n4 History and Memory: Rewriting the Past<\/strong>
\nZora Pru\u0161kov\u00e1
\n5 Poetry and Social Engagement<\/strong>
\nViliam N\u00e1daskay
\n6 Subversion and Experimentation in Contemporary Poetry<\/strong>
\nIvana Hostov\u00e1
\n7 Regional Writing and National Identity in the Borderlands<\/strong>
\nRadoslav Passia
\n8 Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Writing<\/strong>
\nTamara Janecov\u00e1
\n9 Women\u2019s Writing and Social Change<\/strong>
\nRafa\u0142 Majerek
\ncoda | translators and translations<\/strong>
\nTranslating Politics and the Politics of Translation<\/strong>
\nMagdalena Mullek
\nAn Interview with Translator Julia Sherwood <\/strong>
\nPrepared by Katarina Gephardt
\nAppendix | Selected Bibliography of Slovak Literature <\/strong>
\nin English Translation<\/strong>
\nCompiled by Charles Sabatos and Ivana Hostov\u00e1
\nContributors <\/strong>
\nIndex<\/strong><\/p>\n

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