The Beat Generation in Communist Czechoslovakia: the Editorial
Paratexts and the Construction of the Author

a 2018

The Beat Generation in Communist Czechoslovakia: the Editorial Paratexts and the Construction of the Author

ZITA, Antonín

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Beat Generation in Communist Czechoslovakia: the Editorial Paratexts and the Construction of the Author

Název česky

Beat Generation v komunistickém Československu: redakční paratexty a konstrukce Autora

Autoři

ZITA, Antonín

Vydání

14th ESSE Conference, 2018

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Konferenční abstrakt

Obor

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14640/18:00103742

Organizační jednotka

Centrum jazykového vzdělávání

ISBN

978-80-210-9015-6

Klíčová slova česky

Recepce; komparatistika; stereotypy; Beat Generation; beatníci; paratext; autor; socialstický realismus

Klíčová slova anglicky

reception; comparative literature; stereotypes; Beat Generation; beatniks; hipsters; paratext; author; socialist realism;

Štítky

Beat Generation, beatniks, comparative literature, paratext, Reception, socialist realism, stereotypes

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 10. 12. 2018 16:20, Mgr. Antonín Zita, M.A., Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

After the controversy surrounding Josef Škvorecký’s novel The Cowards in the late 1950s, the official ideologues in communist Czechoslovakia increased their stranglehold on literature. As a result, publishing Western and especially American literature, already a challenging and politicized task, had been constrained even further. Therefore, publishers had to carefully package their releases in order to appease the censors. The most common means of such textual reconstruction were cautiously written book covers and especially editorial prefaces or afterwords. This was also the case with the publication of several Beat Generation texts during the period. Publisher’s paratexts, such as the afterwords of the editor Jan Zábrana, usually contrasted the author’s life in relation to the values of socialist Czechoslovakia. By highlighting not only the Beats’ dissatisfaction with American consumerism but also their inability to reach the “correct” ideological stance, these paratexts managed to portray the Beats as nonconformist, yet still ideologically acceptable writers, and therefore fit for publication. Sharply contrasting with the often sensationalist portrayal of the Beats in their home country, the textual strategies of Czechoslovak editors necessary for publication of the Beats thus reveal the publisher’s paratexts as texts able to reconstruct the author in a frequently contradictory manner.

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Citovat

ZITA, Antonín. The Beat Generation in Communist Czechoslovakia: the Editorial Paratexts and the Construction of the Author. In 14th ESSE Conference. 2018. ISBN 978-80-210-9015-6.

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ZITA, Antonín. The Beat Generation in Communist Czechoslovakia: the Editorial Paratexts and the Construction of the Author. In \textit{14th ESSE Conference}. 2018. ISBN~978-80-210-9015-6.

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