Jan Mrazek

On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle

Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Postcolonial reflections on Indonesiaâ¿s influence upon the avant-garde poetry of a non-colonial European. In 1926, the Communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898â¿1951) traveled from Czechoslovakia to the Dutch East Indies. In the writings from his journalâ¿texts simultaneously poetic and comicâ¿both landlocked Bohemia and the colonized tropical islands are seen in disorienting new perspectives, like âmirrors looking at themselves in each other.â? â¿ Jan Mrázekâ¿s On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle takes us on a journey of our own, crisscrossing Bieblâ¿s life and workâ¿with particular attention to his travel writingâ¿as they mirror Mrázekâ¿s own experiences as a multinational academic: a Prague conservatory graduate, educated at Michigan and Cornell, and now a scholar of Indonesia living in Singapore. Bieblâ¿s writings are also the bookâ¿s point of departure for a broader exploration of the intersections of travel and poetry, issues of colonial and social injustice, and the representation of otherness in the Czech literary and visual imagination. In its attention to how poetic travel reflects the Czech historical experience in the shadow of imperial nations, Mrázekâ¿s book elevates scholarly reflection on literary travel, modernity, and colonialism to a new level.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Karolinum, Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy, Czech Republic
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 166mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9788024651125
• ISBN-10: 8024651122
• Artikelnr.: 63924690

Autorenporträt

Jan Mrázek is associate professor of Southeast Asian studies at the National University of Singapore.