Plastic bodies: Petra Hůlová on the Banality of Desire
The Czech novelist, playwright, and screenplay author Petra Hůlová breaks social and sexual taboos with a sense of abandon. Her female narrators’ stories unfold within historical narratives inscribed along political binaries of East and West, socialism and capitalism. This article investigates the...
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Revue des études slaves
2024
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | The Czech novelist, playwright, and screenplay author Petra Hůlová breaks social and sexual taboos with a sense of abandon. Her female narrators’ stories unfold within historical narratives inscribed along political binaries of East and West, socialism and capitalism. This article investigates the context of Hůlová’s narrator in Umělohmotný třípokoj (2004), a novel written at the nexus of neoliberalism, postsocialism, and feminism. A sex worker’s sustained interior monologue intensifies tension between economic and political geographies driven by the banality of desire and its virtual and plastic construction. |
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