Literární politika Rádia Svobodná Evropa v Československu v období &quot;normalizace&quot;

Momčilović, Aleksandar

The MA thesis aims to reconstruct the political and aesthetical framework based on which the Czechoslovak Broadcasting Department of the American Radio Free Europe created its "literary canon" and interpreted literature and society in Czechoslovakia in the period after the breakdown of the Prague Spring, usually referred to as "normalization." The thesis contextualizes the RFE's literary activities and political implications within the late Cold War transnational dynamic to demonstrate the influence of the Anglophone cultures on Czechoslovak literary and political life. Unlike the traditional comparative research, which is usually concerned with how cultural artifacts or values travel from one national culture to another, the thesis explores the Anglophone influence through the way in which this American transnational institution promoted the Czechoslovak cultural products primarily but framed them to be aligned with the American foreign policy. Chapter 1 provides the historical and theoretical background of the activities of Radio Free Europe based on the critical overview of the existing literature on the Radio's cultural activities during the late Cold War with the emphasis on funding, its role in international politics, and its underlying ideology and internal structure. Chapter 2 deals with...

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