SLA335H1

Lifting the Iron Curtain: Czech Culture between 1960 and 1989

This class explores the subversive power of literary, cinematic, and theatrical experiments of the 1960s and confronts them with the development of Czech culture during the so-called normalization that lasted until 1989. Topics include literary texts, cinema, and fine arts at home and in exile. Taught in English, readings in English and in the original.