U okviru CEEPUS mreže Women Writers in History i u suorganizaciji Odsjeka za komparativnu književnost, Odsjeka za južnoslavenske jezike i književnosti te Odsjeka za zapadnoslavenske jezike i književnosti prof. dr. sc. Alenka Jensterle Doležal s Karlova sveučilišta u Pragu održat će predavanje pod naslovom Slovenian-Croatian writer Zofka Kveder and Czech Women Writers: The picture of the New Woman in Kveder’s Hanka and Růžena Svobodová’s Milenky (Women Lovers) u petak, 24. listopada u 14 sati u prostoriji A-124. Predavanje će se održati na engleskom jeziku.
Sažetak predavanja
In this lecture, I will first examine the position of Slovenian-Croatian author Zofka Kveder (1878–1926) in the Czech context, focusing on her time in Prague (1900–1906) and her relationships with Czech women writers of the period. Specifically, I will explore the phenomenon of the New Woman in the novels of Czech Impressionist and Art Nouveau writer Růžena Svobodová (1868–1920) and in Kveder’s novel Hanka. Svobodová influenced Kveder not only through the motifs and themes of her work but also by offering a new understanding of women’s role in society. I will compare representations of the New Woman—and the new man—in their prose, with particular attention to the depiction of femininity, corporeality, and gender relations. My aim is to trace the contours of a newly gendered intimacy experienced by the female subject amid shifting social conditions. I am also interested in how these texts reflect the changing role of women in society, especially in terms of the evolving boundaries between the personal and public spheres. In her two-part novel Milenky (Women Lovers, I, II, 1902), Svobodová offers a narrative that engages with the transformation of women’s roles in early 20th-century Czech society, presenting in one character a subversive image of a new, liberated woman. In her Slovene novel Njeno življenje (Her Life, 1914), Kveder portrays the traditional role of the housewife and mother. In contrast, her Croatian novel Hanka (1915, 1918) introduces an emancipated female figure—a “lover” and professional woman—who navigates the extreme conditions of the First World War.
Više o predavačici:
https://uesebs.ff.cuni.cz/cs/ustav/lide/alenka-jensterle-dolezal