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Czech Emigration in Western Europe, USA and Canada; National Consciousness and Relationship to Homeland in Comparation with Attitudes of Czechs Living in National State
Feitl, David ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor) ; Lupták Burzová, Petra (referee)
The subject of this thesis is a diversified conception of Czechishness. The main proposition is a comparison of types and aspects of relation to the country in the case of (political) emigrants after 1948 in contrast with the "home-based" non-emigrant Czech population. The thesis will briefly mention also the preceding periods of Czech emigration, the socio-economic situation at the turn of the 19th and the 20th centuries, the 1950s etc. All this will be put into the context of the historical turning of the Czech lands away from the West, despite the latter being the destination of the post-February emigrants. In this respect the description of social-political events as perceived by the citizens at the time, by the official propaganda and by emigrants is crucial. The image of the West or emigrants as perceived then together with other conclusions will be compared with the basic theories of migration and migration policy. In the section on political emigration legislation of the period incl. its wording will be quoted. The thesis focuses exclusively on emigrants to the West, especially to Western Europe, the USA and Canada, but also to Australia and Israel. It reflects the direction and the main centres of emigration, checks the relevance of information on the numbers of exiled Czechs, their...
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From Linguistic Aberration to the Subversion of Power: Literary Code-switching and Code-mixing as Tools for Upsetting the Language of Power and Expressing Expatriation
Zelenková, Alena ; Jirsa, Tomáš (advisor) ; Pokorný, Martin (referee)
This thesis explores literary code-switching, i.e. multilingual aspects within a single speech, as a key polyphonic structural element in the selected works. First, it analyzes Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera (1987) as a work, where the author seeks to establish a literary tradition that would reflect the life in borderlands and the given community through a new language. Secondly, the language of photography and multilingual speech patterns in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants (1992) are considered as vital elements of the authenticity play. The following chapter deals with Franz Kafka's short stories, where gestures form an essential part of, if not the whole stories, and determine the fragmentary nature of such writing. Finally, the importance of language of power, the discourse of social realism altogether with their emergence into private and intimate discussions through repetitions and variations is commented upon in Václav Havel's play The Garden Party (1963).
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A Critical Responce to Egon Hostovsky's Post-war Works
Zbořil, Jakub ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Novotný, David Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis A Critical Response to Egon Hostovsky's Post-war Works aims to chart the response of Hostovsky's three postwar works (Cizinec hledá byt, The Lonely Rebels, The Missing). The chapters which aim to analyse the critical acclaim precedes the introduction of Hostovsky's pre- war life and work. The results of this thesis were achieved by the qualitative analysis of media reception as well as due to Hostovsky's autobiography Literární dobrodružství českého spisovatele v cizině and due to works of Czech literary critic Václav Papoušek. This thesis focus on the period from 1947 to the present because the author spent the most of his career in exile and his books were hence banned during the communist era in Czechoslovakia.
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Emigration motif in Pnin and other novels by Vladimír Nabokov
Dubiaga, Daria ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Grmela, Josef (referee)
This bachelor's thesis explores the theme of emigration in Vladimir Nabokov's fiction, primarily through the analysis of one of his English-written novels Pnin. Many works by Nabokov display autobiographical features, which is why a large part of this work provides Nabokov's biography with an emphasis on its possible influence on his career. In the theoretical part of the thesis the biography of Vladimir Nabokov and the typical features of his work are introduced with a preceding short overview of the term emigration and the characterization of the first Russian wave of emigration. The practical part of the thesis provides a deeper analysis of the novel Pnin through the prism of emigration motif and its sub-themes which are realized in Nabokov's work. The last part of the thesis is a brief conclusion about how Nabokov created an image of the Russian emigrant.
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Lost Books: Original Czech Fiction Books at Various Stage of the Production or Distribution Censored on Ideological Grounds during the 1960s and 1970s
Spáčilová, Martina ; Večeřová, Petra (advisor) ; Šípek, Richard (referee)
The topic of this thesis borders librarianship, archival science and literary history - it is a synthesis of several interests and views of the subject. Censorship was a powerful regime tool in the ČSR or the ČSSR and many writers were prevented of publishing any of their work. The thesis deals not only with books, which have been labeled in dictionaries as destroyed despite of their existence. It describes how the turning point between the 1960s and 1970s was manifested in libraries, book shops and secondhand bookstores; what the publishing practice of that time was like, or how the contemporaries that worked in the industry comment on the mentioned time period. Furthermore, the thesis explains what happened to the books that had been banned overnight, what the Editorial Board's practice was like, and finally, what working with banned books involved. A part of the thesis consists of outlining the political background including presentation of the list of books that were not allowed to be published, had to be withdrawn, or the whole edition "dissapeared". How many of such books can readers today actually hold in their hands? The described books (and thousands more) had been locked in libraries' bookcases; special divisions managing the entire organisation had been created; and departments with restricted...
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Comparsion of the concept of exile prind magazines on example of Svědectví and Listy magazines
Beneš, Miroslav ; Cebe, Jan (advisor) ; Končelík, Jakub (referee)
This thesis starts with the introduction of the general historic moments of postwar Czechoslovakia. Attention is paid to the February 1948, Prague Spring and the events of August 1968. These dates established two waves of emigration from Czechoslovakia. In this context, there are presented personalities of Jiri Pelikan and Pavel Tigrid as leading personalities of exile. The analytical part focuses on the comparison of Tigrid's Svedectvi and Listy published by Jiri Pelikan. Analysis is based on important events in postwar history. The thesis is mainly focused on the different perceptions of the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
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Repatriation of Czechoslovak exile from Great Britain after the Second World War
Kučera, Jaroslav ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Horak, Pavel (referee)
The aim of this work is to present how the repatriation from the UK to the liberated Czechoslovakia took place after World War II. The inclusion of the Czechoslovak repatriation to international repatriation action is necessary to emphasize the role of international organizations without this the whole event could not be undrstood correctly. Firstly, the paper focuses on many years of planning repatriation by London exile government which was incredibly tedious process not only for itself but also for the Allies. Planning is encountered a lot of problems and in addition to some conclusions had to wait until the end of the Second World War as it was necessary to know the current situation in the home country. Secondly, the work presents itself start, progress and conclusion repatriation focusing on individual transports and difficulties that accompany them. In conclusion, the paper presents several returnees with their life stories during the duration of their stay in England and after their return to their homeland. KEY WORDS:Czechoslovakia, Exile, Repatriation, Second World War
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Muhammad Reza Pahlavi. United States of America and the shah's exil (1979 - 1980)
Matoušková, Lenka ; Tumis, Stanislav (advisor) ; Koura, Jan (referee)
My thesis is dedicated to the period of years 1979 - 1980, when the islamique revolution in Iran established complicated relationships among a new Iranian government, shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and a government of United States of America with the head president Jimmy Carter. The aim is to map a context between shah's exil and happening in U.S. administrative. The first part deals with the onset of Pahlavi dynasty and its effect on the history of Iran. The second part presents exile years when the Shah had to frequently change his place of residence, and complicated development of opinions among leading members of the government. The third part contains a brief outline of other following happening in United States and the development of the exile government after the Shah's death in 1980.
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Czechs and Slovaks in the country of helvetian cross: czechoslovak expatriate clubs in Switzerland in the second half of the 20th century
Dörner, Petr ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Kvaček, Robert (referee)
This thesis deals with the development and activities of compatriot organizations of Czechs and Slovaks in the 20th century that were associated in the Union of clubs of Czechs and Slovaks in Switzerland. The first clubs, which did not last long, were established in the 1860s. The origins of more stable organizations date back to the beginning of the twentieth century, when clubs such as Czechoslovak Beseda Slovan in Geneva and Czechoslovak Beseda Svatopluk Čech in Zurich were established. These organizations expanded after the big emigrant wave caused by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. This period between the years 1968 and 1990 is the main objective of the following research. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first one introduces some basic notions needed for the thesis and puts the existence of compatriot clubs in Switzerland in a broader context. At the same time, it deals with the most important emigrant waves from Czechoslovakia with emphasis on those emigrants that left for Switzerland. The second chapter deals with the very development of compatriot movement in Switzerland before the critical year 1968. Furthermore, this chapter is divided into various sections on the basis of selecting important turning points in the development of compatriot organizations, such as...
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