Language and Identity in Erzsébet Juhász’s Border Novel
Language and Identity in Erzsébet Juhász’s Border Novel

Summary/Abstract: Erzsébet Juhász’s Border Novel, which is composed of short stories and anecdotes, can be defined as a travelogue as well as a family novel. Its most important motif is the border. In this context, the border denotes a political, cultural and linguistic dissociation. By bridging the distance and the border, travelling is represented as an experiment of temporal break-up. In the family stories the language is a determining power: it is shown both as loss and gain. The Monarchy is the widest space of the novel: its towns (Novi Sad, Szeged, Pozsony, Temesvár, Linz) are identified related to the Hungarian era in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (referred to as ‘the Monarchy’). This paper examines Juhász’s Border Novel as a featured construction of Vojvodinian Hungarian literature: border novel, travel novel and post-Monarchic novel.

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