THE YOUNGEST GENERATION OF SLOVAK VOJVODINIAN POETS

Abstract

This paper analyzes the poetry and poetics of the youngest generation of poets in the literature of Vojvodinian Slovaks, primarily of their main representatives Mihal Bireš, Miroslava Dudkova and Ana Balažova. The poetic opus of these poets, who were born at the end of the 1970s, is ana­lyzed in the context of changes in the literature of Vojvodinian Slovaks at the turn of the century. Special focus is on the new topics, procedures and meanings that these young poets have intro­duced into their opus thus significantly distancing themselves from the previous Generation X of poets. The greatest changes these poets have brought about in their work is an active relation to­wards the reality evoked by a poetic text, which to a great extent overcomes the postmodern skepticism and despondence.