Zrození šedé z černé a bílé: pokus o historickou rekonstrukci pojmu šedá zóna

Title:

Zrození šedé z černé a bílé: pokus o historickou rekonstrukci pojmu šedá zóna
The birth of the grey from the black and white: attempting a historical reconstruction of the “grey zone” concept

Creator:

Burget, Eduard

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:2359c14a-c8ab-4aad-abe1-7a398fa713b1
uuid:2359c14a-c8ab-4aad-abe1-7a398fa713b1
doi:10.51305/cl.2021.04.01

Subject:

šedá zóna, exil, disent, literární život, normalizace, grey zone, exile, disidence, literary life, and normalization

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

This study deals with the grey zone phenomenon in the context of literary life under late Communist rule during the 1970s and 1980s in Czechoslovakia. The aim of this text is to attempt to trace, using the method of historical reconstruction, how the concept of the grey zone was understood in Czech and Slovak society before 1989, especially in texts and discussions on dissent and exile that reflected the reality of normalization. These texts show that awarenesss of the grey zone played an essential role in the thinking of dissident and émigré authors, as it challenged bipolar schemes and blackand- white images of social reality in the Czechoslovakia of the time. However, this conception of the grey zone often contradicts today’s journalistic and specialist approaches, which tend to classify the grey zone as a silent or passive majority. This study shows that the definition of what we now call the grey zone was much broader.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

425-452

Source:

Česká literatura | 2021 Volume:69 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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