Migration Experiences in Contemporary Slovak Fiction (An Analysis of Zuska Kepplová’s Writing) Cover Image

Doświadczenie migracji we współczesnej prozie słowackiej (na przykładzie tekstów Zuski Kepplovej)
Migration Experiences in Contemporary Slovak Fiction (An Analysis of Zuska Kepplová’s Writing)

Author(s): Rafał Majerek
Subject(s): Slovak Literature, Evaluation research, Migration Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Slovak prose; Zuska Kepplová; migration, identity; hybridity;

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the problem of migration prose in Slovak literature and focuses on some aspects of Zuska Kepplová’s books: Buchty švabachom (Buns in the Schwabacher) and 57 km od Taškentu (57 km from Tashkent). Some characters of Kepplová’s debut prose, young immigrants from Central Europe living in their new countries, although realising their inferior status of “the Other”, attempt to take adaptive actions and get closer to local culture, while others, on the contrary, close up in the enclave of migrants, refusing to confront the new situation. The majority of the protagonists live in a state of limbo and indeterminacy, and their identity can be described as a hybrid identity.

  • Issue Year: 14/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 29-41
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish