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Title of the article: |
MODERN SLOVAK DRAMA ABOUT THE SECOND WORLD WAR |
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Author(s): |
Anna Yu. Peskova |
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Information about the author/authors |
Anna Yu. Peskova — PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Ave., 32A, 119991 Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0992-0180 E-mail: apeskova@yandex.ru |
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Section |
Philological sciences |
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Year |
2022 |
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Volume |
Vol. 63 |
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Pages |
pp. 268–277 |
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Received |
August 02, 2021 |
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Approved after reviewing |
October 06, 2021 |
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Date of publication |
March 28, 2022 |
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DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-63-268-277 |
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Index UDK |
821.162.4.0 |
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Index BBK |
83.3(4Сла)7 + 63.3(0)62 |
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Abstract |
The paper addresses the Slovak drama of the 21st century dedicated to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Slovak National Uprising. After the “velvet revolution” of 1989, interest in the military and insurgent theme in Slovak art as a whole declined sharply, but as early as in the 21st century playwrights and theaters of Slovakia are increasingly beginning to return to these topics. Many of these plays created in the last twenty years were written in order to actualize public discussions about the period of the Slovak Republic (1939–1945), around the mass deportation of Jews from its territory, around the arization, etc. The main task of these plays` authors is to put serious moral questions before the viewer. For this purpose, the paper focuses on social and historical context in which National Socialism spread in Slovakia. Such are, for example, the works of R. Ballek “Tiso”, P. Rankov “It Happened on the First of September (or Some Other Time)”, A. Gruskova “The Woman Rabbi”, V. Klimachek “The Holocaust”, Y. Yuraneva “The Silent Whip”. One of the most important questions that Slovak writers and society have been asking in recent decades is the question of how and why Slovaks actually joined Nazi Germany during the Second World War, what prompted them to do this. |
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Keywords |
Slovakia, drama, World War II, Slovak state, Slovak national uprising, Holocaust, arization, theme of guilt and responsibility. |
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References |
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