Nyelv, otthon és felelősség színrevitele kortárs magyar városversekben
The Representation of Language, Home and Responsibility in Contemporary Hungarian Urban Poems

Summary/Abstract: The main topics of the paper are the geographical aspects of cultural identity, mostly focused on the representation of urban space in contemporary Hungarian poetic texts from Cluj-Napoca and Pécs. In two introductory chapters the article firstly tries to show the methods of national tradition-inventing in 18-19th century, mainly in relation to the ideologies of national language and the geographical space. And the other preliminary chapter delineates the postmodern, postcolonial doubts in connection with the concept of sameness in unified national identity, through the notions of Jacques Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other. The second part of the paper presents and analyzes some poems from the Kolozsváros anthology (2019) and the volumes of Ferenc André and Balázs Mohácsi. The interpretation of these poems emphasizes the importance of language, home and responsibility in representation of the urban space.

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