Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Foreword: Slovak Literature and Central Europe ix
5. Acknowledgments xxiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter one. Slovak Literature and the Post-Stalin Liberalization, 1956–70 52
8. Chapter two. Literature of the Transition: Between Neo-modernism and Postmodernism 77
9. Chapter three. Writing the Self from Autobiography to Autofiction 104
10. Chapter four. History and Memory: Rewriting the Past 135
11. Chapter five. Poetry and Social Engagement 155
12. Chapter six. Subversion and Experimentation in Contemporary Poetry 189
13. Chapter seven. Regional Writing and National Identity in the Borderlands 222
14. Chapter eight. Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Writing 249
15. Chapter nine. Women’s Writing and Social Change 276
16. Coda: translators and translations: Translating Politics and the Politics of Translation 311
17. An Interview with Translator Julia Sherwood 327
18. Appendix: Selected Bibliography of Slovak Literature in English Translation 339
19. Contributors 347
20. Index 353