Interpreting the Concept of Transculturalism in Hungarian Literary Discourse Cover Image

Pojęcie transkulturowości w węgierskojęzycznej refleksji literaturoznawczej
Interpreting the Concept of Transculturalism in Hungarian Literary Discourse

Author(s): Magdalena Roguska-Németh
Subject(s): Hungarian Literature, Globalization
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: transculturalism; transnationalism; Hungarian literature; minority literature; literary discourse;

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses how the concept of transculturalism is understood in Hungarian- language literary discourse. Indeed, Hungarian research is one of those areas in which transcultural studies are developing particularly rapidly, as dictated by the specific nature of Hungarian literature, which has been polycentric for more than a century. The study lists the most important Hungarian-language scholarly works that directly refer to transculturalism, or that draw on transcultural methodological thought, analysing them in terms of how their authors define the concept of transculturalism. The con- clusions that emerge from the analysis reveal that the majority of Hungarian literary scholars use the concept of transculturalism interchangeably with the similar but not fully synonymous term of transnationalism. This, in turn, shows that transculturalism remains a new and not well-defined concept in Hungary, which must be redefined each time for use in individual papers and articles.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 59
  • Page Range: 15-35
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish
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