Vol 12 (2019)

Table of Contents

Plenary Invited Paper: AHEA Conference, 2019, University of Pittsburgh

Manifestations of Hungarian Identity in Literature
János Kenyeres
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1-27

General Articles

Ervin Sinkó's Search for Community: The Early Years, 1898-1919
George Deák
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28-45
Beyond the Colonial/Orientalist Encounter: “European” Cultural Contributions to Arab Modernity
Alaaeldin Mahmoud
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46-64
Rózsa G. Hajnóczy’s Bengáli tűz [‘Fire of Bengal’]
Savita Gaur
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65-77
Idioms and Idiotisms: Theodore Thass-Thienemann’s The Interpretation of Language and Spectral Inheritance
György Fogarasi
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78-91
The Abject as Body Language in Imre Kertész’s Fateless and Alaine Polcz’s One Woman in the War
Edit Zsadányi
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92-107
Identity Preservation and Hungarian Language Education in Diaspora Communities
Jenő Palotai, Viktor Wetzl, Ákos Jarjabka
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108-124

Review Articles

Reflections on the Polanyis’ Mystique: A Review Article of Gareth Dale. Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left. New York: Columbia UP. 2016 and Judit Szapor. A világhírű Polányiak: Egy elfelejtett család regényes története (Those World Famous Polanyis: Tales of a Long Forgotten Family). Budapest: Aura kiadó. 2017.
András B. Göllner
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125-131
A New Historical Myth from Hungary: The Legend of Colonel Ferenc Koszorús as the Wartime Savior of the Jews of Budapest. Review Article of Jeszenszky, Géza, ed. July 1944: Deportation of the Jews of Budapest Foiled. Reno, Nevada: Helena History Press, 2018, pp. 317. Distributed by CEU Press.
Peter Pastor
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132-149
From Escapism to Propaganda: Hungarian Cinema in the Age of Growing Anti-Semitism, Nationalism, and World War II. Review Article of Frey, David. 2018. Jews, Nazis and the Cinema of Hungary: The Tragedy of Success, 1929-44 London, New York: I.B. Tauris. 462 pp. illus. and Gergely, Gábor. 2018. Hungarian Film 1929-1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism, and Popular Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 329 pp. illus.
Lilla Tőke
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150-161

In Memoriam: Steven Béla Várdy (1935-2018)

In Memoriam: Steven Béla Várdy (1935-2018)
John J. Dwyer, Géza Jeszenszky, Tibor Frank
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162-165

Thematic Cluster: On Hungarian Historical, Literary and Filmic Constructions of Gender. Guest Editor: Enikő Bollobás

Introduction to the Cluster. Inside and Outside the Patriarchal Box: On Hungarian Historical, Literary, and Filmic Constructions of Gender
Enikő Bollobás
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166-171
The Life and Times of Karola Szilvássy, Transylvanian Aristocrat and Modern Woman
Réka M. Cristian
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172-192
Böske Simon, Miss Hungaria and Miss Europa (1929): Beauty Pageants and Packaging Gender, Race, and National Identity in Interwar Hungary
Louise O. Vasvári
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193-238
Narrative Style and Gender Relations in the Creative Relationship of Miklós Mészöly and Alaine Polcz
Dávid Szolláth
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239-254
The Double Entendre of Sex: Pornographies of Body and Society in Péter Esterházy’s Fiction
Enikő Bollobás
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255-267
Distancing Gender in Contemporary Hungarian Fiction
Pál Hegyi
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268-280
The Curious Female Character in István Szabó’s Sunshine
Zoltán Dragon
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281-289
Gendered Quest in Recent Hungarian Fantasy Films
Vera Benczik
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290-298

Bibliography

Selected English-Language Bibliography of Interest for Hungarian Cultural Studies: 2018-2019
Zsuzsanna Varga
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299-309

Reviews

Takács, Judit. 2018. Meleg század. Adalékok a homoszexualitás 20. századi magyarországi társadalomtörténetéhez [‘Gay Century: Contributions to Twentieth-Century Hungarian Social History of Homosexuality’] Budapest: Kalligram. 254 pp.
Anna Borgos
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310-313
Kiss, Tamás, Székely, István Gergő, Toró, Tibor, Bárdi, Nándor and Horváth, István, eds. 2018. Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights - Hungarians in Transylvania. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan. 545 pp., illus.
Siarl Ferdinand
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314-316
Slíz, Mariann. 2017. Personal Names in Medieval Hungary. Hamburg: Baar Verlag. 215 pp.
László Szabolcs Gulyás
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317-320
Seegel, Steven. 2018. Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of Modern East Central Europe. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press. 346 pp., illus.
Steven Jobbitt
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321-324
Kádár, Judit. 2018. Az Új Idők az első világháború alatt (1914-1918) [‘The New Times During World War I (1914-1914)’]. Budapest: Országos Széchényi Könyvtár. 320 pp. Illus.
Maya J. Lo Bello
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325-328
Legát, Tibor and Dávid Sándor (eds). 2018. Elfelejtett Budapest / Forgotten Budapest. Trans. Virág Tyekvicska. Budapest: Fortepan-könyvek / ZuckerMűvek Kft. 105 pp. Illus.
László Munteán
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329-332
Nagy, Zsolt. 2017. Great Expectations and Interwar Realities: Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy, 1918-1941.Budapest: Central University Press. 341 pages
Mártha Pereszlényi-Pintér
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333-336
Dobrenko, Evgeny and Natalia Jonsson-Skradol, eds. 2016. Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures: Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses. London and New York: Anthem Press. 362 pp.
Corina L. Petrescu
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337-339
Sinkó, Ervin. 2018. The Novel of a Novel, Abridged Diary Entries from Moscow, 1935-1937. Ed. and Trans. George Deák. London, Boulder and New York: Lexington Books. 343 pp.
Veronika Schandl
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340-342
Pető, Andrea. 2018. Elmondani az elmondhatatlant: A nemi erőszak története Magyarországon a II. világháború alatt ['Speaking of the Unspeakable: The Story of Sexual Violence in Hungary During World War II']. Budapest: Jaffa. 279 pp.
Agatha Schwartz
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343-346
Kelemen, Zoltán. 2017. Emlék a kertről [‘Memory of the Garden’]. Szeged: Juhász Gyula Felsőoktatási Kiadó. 365 pp.
Dávid Szőke
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347-350
Bácskai, Éva. 2018. Századok hullámain: Egy szegedi zsidó család letelepedésének története. [’On the Waves of Centuries: The History of the Settling of a Jewish Family in Szeged’]. Szeged: Oriold és Társai. 357 pp.
Dávid Szőke
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351-353
Hametz, Maura E. and Heidi Schlipphacke, eds. 2018. Sissi’s World: The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic. 393 pp.
Christopher Max VanDemark
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354-357