Worlds of Hungarian Writing: National Literature as Intercultural Exchange

Worlds of Hungarian Writing: National Literature as Intercultural Exchange edited by András Kiséry (’98 Columbia University), contributed by Edit Zsadányi (’95 University of California, Berkeley) and György Túry (’12 Ohio State University)

Worlds of Hungarian Writing responds to the rapidly growing interest in Hungarian authors throughout the English-speaking world. Addressing an international audience, the essays in the collection highlight the intercultural contexts that have molded the conventions, genres and institutions of Hungarian writing from the nineteenth century to the present.

Worlds of Hungarian Writing posits intercultural exchange as the very substance of a literary culture. Discussions of the politics of appropriation and translation, of the impact of émigré writers and critics, and of the use of world-literary models in genre-formation complement studies of the fate of western leftist critical theory in post-1989 Hungary, of the role of African-American models in contemporary Roma culture, and of the use of photography in late 20th-century prose.