The green butterfly : Hana Ponická (1922-2007), Slovak writer, poetess, and dissident /

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Author / Creator:Baer, Josette, author.
Imprint:Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2022]
©2022
Description:xxiv, 244 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12772396
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ISBN:3838214269
9783838214269
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • X. Introduction
  • X.1. Method, Key Contexts, Research Questions
  • X.1.1. Method: Contextual Biography
  • X.1.2. Research Questions
  • X.2. Slovak and Czech Dissidents under the Normalization regime. Oral History Interview with Dirk Matthias Dahlberg (SAV)
  • I. Writer, translator and poetess (1939-1974)
  • I.1. Early years: women's themes and cultural issues (1939-1953)
  • I.2. Liberalization and its end (1965-1969)
  • 1.3. Janko Novák (1974)
  • II. Lukavica, the StB and the Bratislava Five (1977-1989)
  • II.1. Notes from Lukavica-one year in the life of Hana Ponická (1977)
  • II.1.1. The Slovak Writers' Union
  • II.1.2. The State Pension Fund
  • II.1.3. Nature as allegory for politics
  • II.2. The StB: surveillance and intimidation
  • II.2.1. Operation MILL (September 1977)
  • II.2.2. Pravda and the November interrogation (October-November 1977)
  • II.3. The end: the trial of the Bratislava Five (November 1989)
  • III. A Slovak voice for Slovak Democracy (1990-2001)
  • III.1. The Velvet Divorce (1989) and Sovereign Slovakia (1993)
  • III.2. Oral history interview with Vlasta Jaksicsová
  • III.3. Oral history interview with Mary Samal
  • Conclusion
  • Chronology
  • Bibliography
  • Index