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Tradition, Literature and Politics in East-Central Europe (Paperback)
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Tradition, Literature and Politics in East-Central Europe (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
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Milan Kundera warned that in in the states of East-Central Europe,
attitudes to the west and the idea of 'Europe' were complex and
could even be hostile. But few could have imagined how the collapse
of communism and membership of the EU would confront these
countries with a life that was suddenly and disconcertingly
'modern' and which challenged sustaining traditions in literature,
culture, politics and established views on identity. Since the
countries of East-Central Europe joined the European Union in 2004
the politicians and oppositionists of the centre-left, who once led
the charge against communism, have often been forced to give way to
right-wing, authoritarian, populist governments. These governments,
while keen to accept EU finance, have been determined to present
themselves as protecting their traditional ethno-national
inheritance, resisting 'foreign interference', stemming the 'gay
invasion', halting 'Islamic replacement' and reversing women's
rights. They have blamed Communists, liberals, foreigners, Jews and
Gypsies, revised abortion laws, tampered with their constitutions
to control the Justice system and taken over the media to an
astonishing degree. By 2019, amid calls for the suspension of their
voting rights, both Poland and Hungary had been taken to the
European Court of Justice and the European Parliament and had begun
to explore ways to put conditions on future EU funding. This book
focuses on the interface between tradition, literature and politics
in east-central Europe, focusing mainly on Poland but also Hungary
and the Czech Republic. It explores literary tradition and the role
of writers to ask why these left-liberals, who were once ubiquitous
in the struggles with communism, are now marginalised, often
reviled and almost entirely absent from political debate. It asks,
in what ways the advent of capitalism 'normalised' literature and
what the consequences might be? It asks whether the rise of
chauvinism is 'normal' in this part of the world and whether the
literary traditions that helped sustain independent political
thought through the communist years now, instead of supporting
literature, feed nationalist opinion and negative attitudes to the
idea of 'Europe'.
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