“An Affront to Writers Everywhere”: A Hypothetical Exploration of Donald Trump’s Life in Howard Jacobson’s Pussy

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

“An Affront to Writers Everywhere”: A Hypothetical Exploration of Donald Trump’s Life in Howard Jacobson’s Pussy

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Howard Jacobson is a British Jewish novelist whose works tend to focus on Jewish characters living in contemporary Britain. However, after the election of Donald Trump as American president, Jacobson strayed away from his usual theme in order to react to the event that he considered “an affront to writers everywhere.” The result is Pussy (2017), a brief satire about the childhood and young adulthood of Prince Fracassus, who resembles Trump in appearance, speech and character. Moreover, as the novel closes with Fracassus’ being elected the Prime Mover of the Federation of All the Republics, other personalities of contemporary political life appear thinly disguised as minor characters. This paper thus compares the recent socio-political reality with its reflection in the novel, additionally commenting on the text’s common features with the classics of British literature that some reviewers identified as Jacobson’s inspirational sources.

Název v anglickém jazyce

“An Affront to Writers Everywhere”: A Hypothetical Exploration of Donald Trump’s Life in Howard Jacobson’s Pussy

Popis výsledku anglicky

Howard Jacobson is a British Jewish novelist whose works tend to focus on Jewish characters living in contemporary Britain. However, after the election of Donald Trump as American president, Jacobson strayed away from his usual theme in order to react to the event that he considered “an affront to writers everywhere.” The result is Pussy (2017), a brief satire about the childhood and young adulthood of Prince Fracassus, who resembles Trump in appearance, speech and character. Moreover, as the novel closes with Fracassus’ being elected the Prime Mover of the Federation of All the Republics, other personalities of contemporary political life appear thinly disguised as minor characters. This paper thus compares the recent socio-political reality with its reflection in the novel, additionally commenting on the text’s common features with the classics of British literature that some reviewers identified as Jacobson’s inspirational sources.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

Silesian Studies in English 2018: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of English and American Studies

ISBN

978-80-7510-398-7

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

176-183

Název nakladatele

Slezská univerzita v Opavě

Místo vydání

Opava

Místo konání akce

Opava

Datum konání akce

6. 9. 2018

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

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