Projects & Grants
| The Problem of Identity in 20th and 21st Century Literature | |
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| Project Id | SGS07/FF/2025 |
| Main solver | Mgr. Roman Polách, Ph.D. |
| Period | 1/2025 - 12/2025 |
| Provider | Specifický VŠ výzkum |
| State | solved |
| Anotation | The project focuses on the issue of identity in multiple relations in the background of interdisciplinary and methodological perspectives - we are concerned with reflecting on the various constitutions of identities in relation to social and collective ideas of the world and the human being in it. Thus, the project includes explorations of the search for more general perspectives of identity in regional literature or in literature depicting the image of border regions or the search for identity in emigration, based on "regionalism as a performative language", based on Pierre Bourdieu's theses. The problem of contemporary identity politics is then related to initial starting point - this current politics works with the search for a liberating and open identity of specific groups of people in an exclusionary society or, on the contrary, it is misused in the exclusion of social diversity and the preservation of past. This perspective then leads to the investigation of the actual imaging mechanism of these groups (e.g. exploring the characteristics of contemporary Czech queer literature, the self-presentation of queer people in literature) or to explore the collective normative ideas (or social and cultural codes and patterns) of the body, gender, human behaviour and the space in which they live and in their linguistic reflection - this is also related to the systematic reflection on the concepts of language and the literary creative act, especially through the impulses of écriture féminine and the concepts of the so-called "féminine literature". According to the above, we will therefore examine contemporary problematic aspects of the search for identity in regional literature observe imagological self-representations in queer literature & observe the transformation of the representation of ideals of women or men (in relation to the problem of identity and (self-)otherness) across 20th and 21st century literature. |
