Škvoreckého Příběh inženýra lidských duší v kanadském literárním poli
Františka Schormová, Ústav pro českou literaturu Akademie věd ČR
Recenzovaný článek
s. 50–71 (obrazová příloha s. 188–190)
Licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.63013/la.2024.02
Škvorecký’s The Engineer of Human Souls in the Canadian literary field
Abstract:
This article focuses on the position of the Czech-Canadian immigrant writer Josef Škvorecký and his writing in the Canadian literary field in the 1970s and 1980s. It looks at the contemporary development of Canadian literature as a category and Škvorecký’s role as an ethnic writer through Homi K. Bhabha’s concepts of hybridity and the Third Space while also considering the background of the Cold War and Canadian official policy on multiculturalism. The article discusses the Canadian publication of Škvorecký’s novel The Engineer of Human Souls in 1984, the Governor-General’s Literary Award given to it, the way the novel relates itself to Canada, and the polemic between Škvorecký and Terry Goldie in the journal Canadian Literature. This analysis of the novel and its dissemination and reception demonstrates that Bhabha’s postcolonial terminology cannot cover the case of a Czech exile writer in Canada, but the issues it brings to the debate open up new connections and contexts.
Klíčová slova:
Josef Škvorecký; exilová literatura; migrační literatura; kanadská literatura; postkoloniální literatura; etnická literatura; překlad; hybridita; třetí prostor
Keywords:
Josef Škvorecký; exile literature; literature of migration; Canadian literature; postcolonial literature; ethnic literature; translation; hybridity; Third Space
Citace:
Schormová, Františka: Škvoreckého Příběh inženýra lidských duší v kanadském literárním poli. Literární archiv 56, Třetí prostor české literatury, 2024. Ed. Marek Nekula, s. 50–71; https://doi.org/10.63013/la.2024.02.