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South Slavic Women Writers in Prague and Czech culture (Zofka Kveder and Julka Chlapec Djordjević) - AJVES0574
Title: South Slavic Women Writers in Prague and Czech culture (Zofka Kveder and Julka Chlapec Djordjević)
Guaranteed by: Department of Ethnology and Central European and Balkan Studies (21-UESEBS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (10)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / 10
Key competences: critical thinking
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level: specialized
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. PhDr. Alenka Jensterle Doležal, CSc.
Class: A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Literatura
A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Uměnovědy
Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature
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Annotation
The lecture provides a history of literary and cultural life in Central Europe with an emphasis on the phenomenon
of two women writers with two cultural identities in Prague in the first half of the 20th century. In lectures we will
focus on the Slovene-Croat writer and the feminist Zofka Kveder (1878–1926, in Prague from 1900 – 1906)) and on
the Serbian writer and the feminist Julka Chlapec-Djordjević (1882–1969, in Prague from 1922 – 1945). Both
South Slavic women writers and feminists were also cultural nomads and mediators with more language
identities, connected to Czech feminist movement. They lived in Prague- the place for European modernism and
avant-garde in the first half of the 20th Century. In their position and reception they experienced the tradition of
Slavic solidarity and reciprocity still present in the Czech society in the first half of 20 Century. Both of them were
active in the Czech culture and society and very much inspired by it also in their literary work. We will analyse the
cultural context, their literary work, the reception of it and the images of the Czech culture in their literary work.
Last update: Vlainić Sandra, Mgr. (29.06.2022)
Literature -

HECZKOVÁ, Libuše: (Ženské) tělo zdravé, invalidní, mizející a plodné. In: Vladimir Papoušek a kolektiv, Dějiny nové moderny. Česká literatura v letech 1924-1934. 2. Lomy vertikál, Praha: Academia 2014, s. 285-322.

JENSTERLE DOLEŽAL, Alenka: „The Influence of Czech Women Writers on the first literary Work of Slovene Zofka Kveder.” In: Vesela Tutavec und Ilse Korotin (Hrsg.). Wir wollen der Gerechtigkeit und Menschenliebe dienen... „ Neue Ergebnisse der Frauenbiografieforschung 18. Fruenbildung und Emanzipation in der Habsburgermonarchie - der südslawiche Raum und sein Wechselwirkung mit Wien, Prag und Budapest. Präsens Verlag, 2016. pp. 268-284.

  • -, „The Genealogy of the 20th Century South Slavonic Novel: Zofka Kveder and Julka Chlapec-Djordjević.“ Knjiženstvo, č. 6. 2016, Beograd, Filološki fakultet 1-7. http://www.knjizenstvo.rs/sr/casopisi/2016/zenska-knjizevnost-i-kultura/genealogija-u-juznoslovenskom-romanu-20-veka-zofka-kveder-i-julka-hlapec-djordjevic ( 8. 2. 2017).

  • -. „Nation (Transnationality), Gender and Politics in the Feminist Work of Julka Chlapec-Đorđević“, Knjiženstvo, č. 10, Beograd, Filološki fakultet, 2020, s. 1 -26. http://www.knjizenstvo.rs/en/journals/2020/womens-writing-and-culture/nation-transnationality-gender-and-politics-in-the-feminist-work-of-julka-chlapec-djordjevic (dne 11. 1. 2021).

Alenka Jensterle-Doležal and Jasna Honzak Jahić (eds.): Zofka Kvedrová (1878-1926): Recepce její tvorby ve 21. století. Národní knihovna ČR- Slovanská knihovna, 2008.

PYNSET, Robert P.. „The Liberation of Woman and the Nation: Czech Nationalism and Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle.” In: Robert P. Pynsent (ed.). The Literature of Nationalism. Essays on East European Identity. London University, 1996.

K0CH, Magdalena: "...kiedy dojrzejemy jako kultura..." Twórczość pisarek serbskich na początku XX wieku. Wrocław: Wydawnictvo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2007.

LEDGER, Sally: The New Women. Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Siecle. Manchaster and New York: Manchaster University Press,1997.

Schwartz, Agatha. Shifting Voices, Feminist Thought and Women's Writing in Fin-de-Siècle Austria and Hungary. McGill-Queen's UP, 2008.

MIHURKO PONIŽ, Katja: Drzno drugačna: Zofka Kveder in podobe ženskosti. Ljubljana: Delta, 2003.

  • -:„Zofka Kveder as a cultural transmitter.“ Knjiženstvo : časopis za studije književnosti, roda i kulture, ISSN 2217-7809, 2020, vol. 10, no. 10. https://doi.org/10.18485/knjiz.2020.10.10.4, doi: 10.18485/knjiz.2020.10.10.4.

SLAPŠAK, Svetlana: „Julka Hlapec-Đorđević. Iz skandalozne istorije zataškavanja feminizma među Južnim Slovenima.” ProFemina, č. 5-6, 1996, s. 86-89.

  • -: „Jedno dopisivanje: odgovor posle sedamdeset godina.” In: Julka Hlapec-Đorđević, Jedno dopisivanje. Fragmenti romana. Beograd: Prosveta, 2004,153-170.

Last update: Vlainić Sandra, Mgr. (29.06.2022)
Requisites for virtual mobility

Guarantor, lecturer: Associate prof. Alenka Jensterle Doležal

Winter semester 2022/2023

Lecture

5 credits

Language of instruction: English

Capacity: until 10 students

Competence: critical thinking

Minimal requirements: the knowledge of English B2

Examination at the end, essay on women writers with more language identities, reading: two texts by women writers in the original or in the translation

Virtual mobility tag

Schedule: winter semester 2022/ 2023: Friday, 9. 10 h – 10. 45h

Last update: Vlainić Sandra, Mgr. (29.06.2022)
Syllabus

1. Prague as a literary and cultural centre in the beginning of 20th century.

2. Zofka Kveder, her literary work, her stay in Prague (1900 - 1906) and her place in Czech culture.

3. The anthology of short stories Misterij žene (The Mistery of a women) from 1900.

4. The influence of Czech women writers on her work.

5. The reception of her literary work in the Czech culture.

6. Czech motives in her literary work. The novel Hanka.

7. Julka Chlapec-Djordjevič and her literary and feminist work. Her life in Prague (1922 - 1945).

8. Her literary work.

9. Her novel Jedno Dopisivanje. Fragmenti romana (Correspondence. Fragments of the novel) from 1932 and the construction of the main hero.

10. Comparison of her novel Jedno dopisivanje to the novels by Czech women writers in thirties.

11. Feminist ideas and different national identities in her work.

12. The reception of her feminist and literary work in the Czech culture in the inter-war period and later.

13. The phenomenon of south Slavic women writers in the Central European area.

Last update: Vlainić Sandra, Mgr. (29.06.2022)
 
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