Magazine Tvar Rebranded and Obrys-Kmen as Space for 'Creative Freedom'?: Official Critique of the Late 1980s After 1989
2020
Abstract
This article deals with the beginnings of the magazines Tvar (form) and Obrys-Kmen (contours-stem), which were founded on the vestiges of defunct periodicals Kmen and Obrys. What they present, for the most part, are editorial statements and positions, as well as metacriticism and profiles on various publications from the diverse medium of literary journals in the context of the newly democratized literary sphere of the 1990s.
The aim of this article is to show, using the examples of Tvar and Obrys-Kmen, how the prominent position and status of official literary criticism and its representatives changed after 1989, as they were cast to the (apparent) periphery of the field.