The subject of emigration in the context of post-Yugoslav wars in contemporary Slovak Vojvodina playwriting

This study focuses on Slovak Vojvodina drama in the last decade of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, with an emphasis on the theme of emigration as one of the important topics in current dramatic production in Serbia. It analyses dramatic texts from the collections Nova slovenska vojvodinska drama ([New Slovak Vojvodina drama], 2004, 2014) and the journal Novy zivot written by Slovak author Lubomir Sarik, Slovak Vojvodina author Jan Hrubik, and playwright Vladislava Fekete, originally from Vojvodina but living in Slovakia. The authors in these dramas respond to the complex socio-political situation in Yugoslavia, particularly Serbia, in the 1990s and its subsequent impacts on the following decades, including the prominent issue of Slovak emigration from Serbia. The portrayal of the thematic and motivational layer of emigration varies in value depending on the creative potential of the author and their contextual placement. It ranges from unique dramatic story backgrounds (L. Sarik, J. Hrubik) to the existentially heightened description of the immigrant's border situation, including those from the Slovak enclave in Serbia (V. Fekete). This research opens up space for a more active intercultural dialogue between Slovak, Slovak Vojvodina, and Serbian drama.