Memory Space and Space Mythization – Space Perception of the Hungarian Literature in Vojvodina in the 1990s
Memory Space and Space Mythization – Space Perception of the Hungarian Literature in Vojvodina in the 1990s

Summary/Abstract: Among the key issues of Hungarian literature in Vojvodina during the Yugoslav wars is the discourse of space, more specifically, several acute problems of space poetics. The authors who decided to stay in their homeland embed into their texts their attitudes to the local space, local colours and the aspects of mythization and demythization. Migrant authors, on the other hand, often refer to their memory spaces. In this period, Ottó Tolnai’s local texts emerge, as well as István Németh’s mythicized spaces, Nándor Gion’s or István Szathmári’s memory spaces and Erzsébet Juhász’s historical approach to the borderland area. The turn of the millennium provided an opportunity for the reappraisal of space discourses and an examination of the culture of translation.

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