Narrative as a Means of Self-Anchoring in Exile

0577769 - ÚČL 2024 eng A - Abstract
Antošíková, Lucie
Narrative as a Means of Self-Anchoring in Exile.
[Displacements: Women’s Writing and Creative Practices in Modern Central and southeastern Europe. Emancipatory Experiences and Transnational Trajectories? Praha, 16.03.2023-17.03.2023]
Method of presentation: Přednáška
Event organizer: CEFRES
URL events: https://cefres.cz/cs/events/event/displacements-womens-writing-and-creative-practices-in-modern-central-and-southeastern-europe-2 
Institutional support: RVO:68378068
Keywords : emigre literature * exil literature * women in migration * displacement * women´s writing
OECD category: Specific literatures
https://cefres.cz/cs/events/event/displacements-womens-writing-and-creative-practices-in-modern-central-and-southeastern-europe-2

Coping with emigration is a long-term process, the success of which depends on many variables – an individual’s personal adjustment, the competences they possess, the strategies they choose, the environment that surrounds them and, to some extent, their happiness in life. At the same time, the issue of motherhood, the need/ability to pay attention to the child and the child’s dependence play a significant role in women’s biographies. Czech women authors who left communist Czechoslovakia after 1968 coped with emigration in different ways: the positions and literary forms they chose for their narratives, in which they tried to grasp, process and cope with this experience, were equally different. The paper attempts to define distinctive solutions for depicting a new life situation and to name possible universal principles of searching for and finding the position of the narrative subject in exile, the way of relating to oneself, others and the world, and thematic connections.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0346882