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The Magic of the Word

Cultural Interference and Literary Multilingualism in the Contemporary Serbian and Hungarian Literatures

Summary/Abstract: The paper studies those prose works in the Serbian and Hungarian contemporary literatures which come under the notion of literary multilingualism. Among the works are also the examples which, although they contain only few foreign linguistic elements, nevertheless consistently mark the context of their plots by referring to the other culture in their titles, or indicating the surroundings or individual characters by introducing proper names through which the foreign culture is entailed in the field of interpretation. In addition to describing this phenomenon, the paper also seeks to find an interpretation for the function of using names and foreign language codes. Among these are the exploitation of the chronotopic character of magic realism, the postmodern playing with foreign languages, and the emphasis on plural identity. Literary texts thus become not only a terrain of cultural contexts,but also a contextualization of cultural conflicts

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