Sylabus
1. Prague as a cultural centre before the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy.
2. Big cities in the monarchy and their literary fields. Multicultural relations and the function of the city.
3. The literary work of Slovene – Croat women writer Zofka Kveder (1878–1926). Her place in Slovenian literature and Central European culture. Kveder as a literary nomad with more identities.
4. Zofka Kveder and her place in Czech culture.
5. Influences of Czech writers to her work.
6. Zofka Hásková – her translator and critic.
7. The reception of her work in Czech culture.
8. The literary and feminist work of the Serbian author and philosopher Julka Chlapec Djordjević.
9. The place of Chlapec Djordjevič in Czech culture.
10. Her novel Jedno dopisivanje and the picture of Zofka Kveder in her work.
11. Feminism of her thought.
12. Her place between different cultures before the Second World War.
13. Conclusion.
Anotace
The topics of the lecture will be the literary work, feministic thought and reception of two South Slavic women writers: Slovene-Croat writer Zofka Kveder (1878–1926) and Serbian writer and feminist Julka Chlapec-Djordjević (1882–1969) in Czech culture and in their own country in the first half of 20th Century. Both writers lived in Prague for same period: Kveder from 1900 to 1906, Chlapec- Djordjević from 1922 to 1945.
The main goal is to describe their place in Czech and European literary life in the first part of the twentieth century. The literary context also includes the problem of the influence of the Czech female intellectual movement on their work (with regard to the problem of their reception into Czech, Slovene, and Serbian culture).
The paper will also provide new knowledge of the transnational women writers’ movement and intercultural relations in the culturally rich life of Prague at the end of the Habsburg Empire period and some years after its collapse.