PARATEKSTY W „CZYTANKACH” SŁOWACKIEGO FEMINISTYCZNEGO STOWARZYSZENIA ASPEKT
Paratexts in the 'Čítanka' Series of the Slovak Feminist Association ASPEKT

Summary/Abstract: This article examines 3 publications issued by the Slovak feminist association ASPEKT: selections of works by Hana Gregorová and Terézia Vansová – authors central to the tradition of women’s writing in Slovakia – and the anthology Potopené duše [Sunken Souls], which brings together texts by forgotten Slovak women poets of the first half of the twentieth century. These volumes were published in a 'Čítanka' series ['Reader'], whose guiding principle is the revitalization of women’s literary heritage as well as the continuation and further development of its emancipatory trajectory. All three books contain extensive paratextual layers, the analysis of whose key components and functions constitutes the core of this article. In the editions of Gregorová and Vansová, introductory commentaries to the individual sections of the main text, editorial notes, and other interventions are intended primarily to establish a contemporary and updating interpretive perspective. In the anthology, paratextual elements serve to reintroduce forgotten women poets into the broader context of Slovak literature and to demonstrate the ways in which their work supplements and enriches the landscape of Slovak poetry in the early decades of the twentieth century. Across all examined volumes, the accompanying commentaries and editorial notes also reveal the potential for reframing the tradition of Slovak literature through the lens of feminist criticism.

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