Stereotypes of Deficiency in the Hungarian Literature from Vojvodina in the Nineties of the Twentieth Century
Stereotypes of Deficiency in the Hungarian Literature from Vojvodina in the Nineties of the Twentieth Century

Summary/Abstract: The Hungarian literature of the wartime years in Vojvodina approaches deficiency from many aspects. The subject, experiencing a dangerous situation, loss, unsteadiness in the birthplace, possibly undertaking migration, is bound to the past, memories, mythological motifs, mytho-political or family myth, stressing the gesture of prayer and the polemicizing opportunities looking in this way for his national and/or local identity. The number of the local literary texts, of stereotypes connected to the local scenes, to the manner of minority existence and to the Balkan, increases, respectively, their ironic shifts get an outstanding role. This paper takes a close look at the stereotypes occurring in the contemporary texts in Vojvodina, at their theoretical concerns, actual occurrences, as well as at the “divided” mythization of the stereotypes. The retrospective view, the text apparently flowing backwards, the variety of private mythologies are attached to the disintegration of the homeland and family, namely to deficiency. From among the stereotypes there emerge, for example, the waste, some concrete space elements and the reinterpretation of the holiday, the blues or the edge. Besides the approach of the actual literary texts/text places, this research also focuses on the motif of the Kosztolányi cult in Szabadka emphasizing Europeanism.

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