Mrázek Jan: On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle - Tropics, Travel, and Coloniali
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Autor: Mrázek Jan
Druh vazby: Knihy - paperback
Počet stran: 324
Rozměr: 0 x 0 mm
Vydáno: 2022-02-24
Stav: Skladem v externím skladu
Datum odeslání: Do týdne
ISBN: 978-80-246-5112-5
EAN: 9788024651125
Nakladatelství: Nakladatelství Karolinum
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In 1926, the communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898–1951) travelled from Czechoslovakia to the Dutch East Indies. In his texts, poetic and often comic, both landlocked Bohemia and the colonized tropical islands are seen disorientingly anew, like “mirrors looking at themselves in each other.” On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle takes the reader on a journey crisscrossing the poet’s life and work, with particular attention to his travel writing and his dreams and memories of travel, as they mirror the book author’s own life experience as a Czech scholar of Indonesia living in island Southeast Asia. Biebl’s poetry and travels are also the book’s point of departure for a broader exploration of the intersections of travel and poetry, the attitudes to colonial/social injustice, and the representation of otherness in Czech literary and visual imagination, beyond Biebl’s times. In its attention to how poetic travel reflects the Czech historical experience in the shadow of imperial nations, the book moves scholarly reflection on literary travel, modernity, and colonialism to a new ground.
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