Dispositives of silence: gender, feminism and Czech literature between 1948 and 1989

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dispositives of silence: gender, feminism and Czech literature between 1948 and 1989

Original language description

The paper analyses a subliminal backlash against feminism paradoxically within the very cultural context that founded its legitimacy in the discourse of human rights, equality and justice, namely the context of cultural activities or more specifically literary outcomes of the then anti-establishment, dissident activism in former pre-1989 Czechoslovakia. In several literary texts it tracks down de-centred, intra-active entanglements of discursive and affective mechanisms of silencing (foreclosure) of feminist activism by those (ex post) highly prestigious, dignified, symbolically loaded dissident cultural discourses. The paper focuses specifically on the ways gender was dispossessed, ridiculed, trivialised, and silenced in analysed literary texts by processes of interpellating readers through positive, dignified values and identities that were however at the same time essentially wounding and dis-empowering. In this regard it is clear that in the given literary texts, the microphysics o

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice

ISBN

978-0-415-72083-0

Number of pages of the result

26

Pages from-to

162-187

Number of pages of the book

264

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

London

UT code for WoS chapter

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