Prague's translocal underground: Anglophone fiction from the city of thresholds

Abstract

This article presents a survey of Prague's post-1990 Anglophone literary scene. Analysing at first the 20th-century Prague as a particular psychogeographic space with its own flows of energies and imaginative potential, the article then speaks of the contemporary Prague Anglophone scene as pursuing a "translocal" type of writing, illustrated in its second half by the critical overview of the work of Prague's five most interesting Anglophone writers active over the past decade.

Keywords

• Anglophone fiction
• Prague
• translocality
• psychogeographic space