The green butterfly

Titel: The green butterfly : Hana Ponická (1922-2007), Slovak writer, poetess, and dissident / Josette Baer; with a foreword by Ivan Kamenec
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Veröffentlicht: Stuttgart : ibidem Verlag, [2022]
Umfang: XXIV, 244 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 21 cm, 353 g
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9783838214269 ; 3838214269
  • Foreword
  • p. ix
  • Abbreviations
  • p. xix
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. xxiii
  • X
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • X.1
  • Method, Key Contexts, Research Questions
  • p. 6
  • X.1.1
  • Method: Contextual Biography
  • p. 6
  • X.1.2
  • Research Questions
  • p. 9
  • X.2
  • Slovak and Czech Dissidents under the Normalization regime. Oral History Interview with Dirk Matthias Dahlberg (SAV)
  • p. 10
  • I
  • Writer, translator and poetess (1939-1974)
  • p. 35
  • I.1
  • Early years: women's themes and cultural issues (1939-1953)
  • p. 35
  • I.2
  • Liberalization and its end (1965-1969)
  • p. 45
  • 1.3
  • Janko Novák (1974)
  • p. 55
  • II
  • Lukavica, the StB and the Bratislava Five (1977-1989)
  • p. 61
  • II.1
  • Notes from Lukavica-one year in the life of Hana Ponická (1977)
  • p. 61
  • II.1.1
  • The Slovak Writers' Union
  • p. 67
  • II.1.2
  • The State Pension Fund
  • p. 90
  • II.1.3
  • Nature as allegory for politics
  • p. 98
  • II.2
  • The StB: surveillance and intimidation
  • p. 105
  • II.2.1
  • Operation MILL (September 1977)
  • p. 106
  • II.2.2
  • Pravda and the November interrogation (October-November 1977)
  • p. 116
  • II.3
  • The end: the trial of the Bratislava Five (November 1989)
  • p. 143
  • III
  • A Slovak voice for Slovak Democracy (1990-2001)
  • p. 161
  • III.1
  • The Velvet Divorce (1989) and Sovereign Slovakia (1993)
  • p. 161
  • III.2
  • Oral history interview with Vlasta Jaksicsová
  • p. 175
  • III.3
  • Oral history interview with Mary Samal
  • p. 182
  • Conclusion
  • p. 191
  • Chronology
  • p. 197
  • Bibliography
  • p. 229
  • Index
  • p. 241