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Worlds of Hungarian Writing - National Literature as Intercultural Exchange (Hardcover)
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Worlds of Hungarian Writing - National Literature as Intercultural Exchange (Hardcover)
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Worlds of Hungarian Writing responds to the rapidly growing
interest in Hungarian authors throughout the English-speaking
world. Addressing an international audience, the essays in the
collection highlight the intercultural contexts that have molded
the conventions, genres and institutions of Hungarian writing from
the nineteenth century to the present. They are mapping some of the
ways in which a modern literature is produced by encounters with
languages, cultures, and media external to its traditionally
conceived boundaries. But rather than viewing intercultural
exchange as an external force, the collection recognizes its
enabling importance to the globalizing reception and circulation of
Hungarian writing over the continuities and constraints implied by
more traditional national narratives. Worlds of Hungarian Writing
posits intercultural exchange as the very substance of a literary
culture. Discussions of the politics of appropriation and
translation, of the impact of emigre writers and critics, and of
the use of world-literary models in genre-formation complement
studies of the fate of western leftist critical theory in post-1989
Hungary, of the role of African-American models in contemporary
Roma culture, and of the use of photography in late 20th-century
prose. The volume spans a wide generic range, from the achievements
of such canonical 19th-century critics and poets as Jozsef Bajza
and Janos Arany, to neglected women authors-translators such as
Theresa Pulszky, to modernist writers and critics like Antal Szerb
and Gyoergy Lukacs, and to the contemporary novelists Peter
Esterhazy, Peter Nadas, and Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Each essay is an
original contribution to comparative literature and to the study of
this Central-European literature, but is intended to be accessible
to readers unfamiliar with its traditions.
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