Description
Book SynopsisThis book wants to make Hungarian women writers accessible to an English-speaking public and presents interpretations of Hungarian and American literary texts by writers such as Margit Kaffka, Anna Lesznai, Jolán Földes, Zsuzsa Rakovszky, Agáta Gordon, Virág Erdős, Zsuzsa Forgács, Alaine Polcz, Gertrude Stein, Kathy Acker and Jhumpa Lahiri. In literary narratives it is possible to represent female political interests in a decentered narrative subjectivity. The book illustrates that literary narratives readily accept the contradictory nature of identity issues and create an exciting and complex network of articulating female voices.
Table of ContentsContents: Subjectivity – Narrativity – Narratology – Focalization – Rhetoric – Gender studies – Identity – Hungarian literature – Modernism – Postmodernism – Women writers – Decentered subjectivity – Margit Kaffka – Emma Ritoók – Jolán Földes – Anna Lesznai – Zsuzsa Rakovszky – Virág Erdős – Agáta Gordon – Alaine Polcz – Gertrude Stein – Kathy Acker – Jhumpa Lahiri.
