Transcultural phenomena in contemporary Slovakian Hungarian prose
Transcultural phenomena in contemporary Slovakian Hungarian prose
Author(s): Gabriella Petres CsizmadiaSubject(s): Hungarian Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: transculturalism; Slovakian Hungarian literature; contemporary prose; multiculturalism; multilingualism; translocality
Summary/Abstract: In my study I deal with the transcultural liteary-spacial position of contemporary Slovakian Hungarian prose. I have selected the works for interpretation from the representative writings of the last five years (Katarina Durica: Szlovákul szeretni [To love in Slovak]. Libri, Budapest, 2016; Anikó N. Tóth: Szabad ez a hely? [Is this seat free?]. Pesti Kallgiram Kft., Budapest, 2017; Pál Száz: Fűje sarjad mezőknek [Grass grows on meadows]. Pesti Kalligram Kft., Budapest, 2017). Due to their diversity in genre, language and subject, these works provide a cross-section of contemporary Slovakian Hungarian prose. The peculiarity of the corpus is that it reflects on the hibridity, inter- and multiculturalism typical for Central-European literature (cf. Welsch, 1999), and it also demonstrates translocality, multiculturalism, multilingualism and the experience of using multiple language varieties.
- Issue Year: 34/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 32-46
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
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