Contemporary Czech Literature and Culture
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This special issue belongs to the section "Literature in the Humanities".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2026 | Viewed by 226
Special Issue Editor
Interests: dis/continuities between late nineteenth-century culture and the interwar period; transnational European Modernism and the Avant-garde; interactions between narratives of the body (and/or body politic) and the arts; and interactions between different art forms, especially between literature, cinema and art.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is much excellent scholarly writing on Czech literature and artistic culture’s emergence during the nineteenth century’s Czech National Revival, the thriving Avant-garde in First Republic Czechoslovakia, and the ebbs and flows of repression and relative liberalisation during the period of Communist rule, 1948–89. Less common are scholarly discussions of the rich literature and artistic culture of the years since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, and especially of the flourishing twenty-first-century cultural scene/s. As such, there is a risk that scholarly conceptions of cultural Czech-ness become tied to historical modes that do not fully engage with recent developments.
With the aim of both celebrating and interrogating the contemporary cultural scene, this Special Issue invites papers that investigate aspects of Czech literary and artistic culture, 1993–present. Its scope includes, but is not limited to, themes, aesthetics, stylistics, and audience perceptions of works of Czech literature, theatre, music, visual art, and cinema; Czech literary and cultural institutions, groupings, networks, and publications; comparative approaches to Czech literature and artistic culture; Czech literary and artistic culture through a transnational lens—including, for example, Czech artistic culture and/in translation or international collaboration; Czech culture in languages other than Czech; and artistic cultures of Czech diasporic communities. Submissions addressing twenty-first-century Czech literary and artistic culture are particularly welcomed.
Please send an abstract of 500 words to Dr Julia Sutton-Mattocks at julia.sutton-mattocks@bristol.ac.uk by 31st March 2026.
Following abstract review, invited submissions of 6000–10,000 words (excluding bibliography) will be due by 1st September 2026.
The language of the issue is English.
Dr. Julia Sutton-Mattocks
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Czech literature
- Czech visual culture
- Czech music
- cultural institutions
- transnational Czech studies
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