Zapomnienie jako utrata tożsamości we współczesnej prozie czeskiej i chorwackiej (Katerina Tučková „Wypędzenie Gerty Schnirch”, Ivana Šojat-Kuči „Unterstadt”)
Oblivion as a Loss of Identity in Contemporary Czech and Croatian Prose (Kateřina Tučková “The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch”, Ivana Šojat-Kuči “Unterstadt”)

Summary/Abstract: The fate of the German minority living in the Slavic countries before World War II has become the subject of numerous novels in recent years, not only those whose authors witnessed dramatic events that took place after the end of the war, but also young writers who only learned about the fate of marginalized groups after 1989. Thanks to literature, images of post-war history which until then had been a „blank spot”, started to circulate. The German inhabitants of Brno (Tučková) or Osijek (Šojat-Kuči) were for many years wiped from official memory, erased from historical studies, doomed to social exclusion, loss of their own language and identity. Interestingly, oblivion and erasure also encompass the city space where the characters of the analyzed novels once lived. Selected literary texts make it possible to trace how the image of memory is constructed and how it is manipulated.

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