Traumatic histories : representations of (post-)Communist Czechoslovakia in Sylvie Germain, Daniela Hodrova, and Jean-Gaspard Palenicek
Journal: Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter)
Year: 2014

Through a study of the work of three important writers, this thesis engages with the traumatic memories of the second half of the twentieth century in Czechoslovakia in order to highlight the value of literature in widening critical understandings of the continuing legacy of this complex era, which was dominated by totalitarian regimes under the Communist governments which gained control after the upheaval of the Second World War. Whilst these years were not unilaterally traumatic, many lives we