Vol. 12 (2019)

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

Manifestations of Hungarian Identity in Literature

János Kenyeres

1-27
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General Articles

Ervin Sinkó's Search for Community: The Early Years, 1898-1919

George Deák

28-45
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Beyond the Colonial/Orientalist Encounter: “European” Cultural Contributions to Arab Modernity

Alaaeldin Mahmoud

46-64
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Rózsa G. Hajnóczy’s Bengáli tűz [‘Fire of Bengal’]

Savita Gaur

65-77
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Idioms and Idiotisms: Theodore Thass-Thienemann’s The Interpretation of Language and Spectral Inheritance

György Fogarasi

78-91
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The Abject as Body Language in Imre Kertész’s Fateless and Alaine Polcz’s One Woman in the War

Edit Zsadányi

92-107
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Identity Preservation and Hungarian Language Education in Diaspora Communities

Jenő Palotai, Viktor Wetzl, Ákos Jarjabka

108-124
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Review Articles

In Memoriam: Steven Béla Várdy (1935-2018)

In Memoriam: Steven Béla Várdy (1935-2018)

John J. Dwyer, Géza Jeszenszky, Tibor Frank

162-165
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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

166-171
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The Life and Times of Karola Szilvássy, Transylvanian Aristocrat and Modern Woman

Réka M. Cristian

172-192
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Böske Simon, Miss Hungaria and Miss Europa (1929): Beauty Pageants and Packaging Gender, Race, and National Identity in Interwar Hungary

Louise O. Vasvári

193-238
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Narrative Style and Gender Relations in the Creative Relationship of Miklós Mészöly and Alaine Polcz

Dávid Szolláth

239-254
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The Double Entendre of Sex: Pornographies of Body and Society in Péter Esterházy’s Fiction

Enikő Bollobás

255-267
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Distancing Gender in Contemporary Hungarian Fiction

Pál Hegyi

268-280
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The Curious Female Character in István Szabó’s Sunshine

Zoltán Dragon

281-289
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Gendered Quest in Recent Hungarian Fantasy Films

Vera Benczik

290-298
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Bibliography

Selected English-Language Bibliography of Interest for Hungarian Cultural Studies: 2018-2019

Zsuzsanna Varga

299-309
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Plenary Invited Paper: AHEA Conference, 2019, University of Pittsburgh

Manifestations of Hungarian Identity in Literature

General Articles

Ervin Sinkó's Search for Community: The Early Years, 1898-1919

Beyond the Colonial/Orientalist Encounter: “European” Cultural Contributions to Arab Modernity

Rózsa G. Hajnóczy’s Bengáli tűz [‘Fire of Bengal’]

Idioms and Idiotisms: Theodore Thass-Thienemann’s The Interpretation of Language and Spectral Inheritance

The Abject as Body Language in Imre Kertész’s Fateless and Alaine Polcz’s One Woman in the War

Identity Preservation and Hungarian Language Education in Diaspora Communities

Review Articles

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.

In Memoriam: Steven Béla Várdy (1935-2018)

In Memoriam: Steven Béla Várdy (1935-2018)

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

The Life and Times of Karola Szilvássy, Transylvanian Aristocrat and Modern Woman

Böske Simon, Miss Hungaria and Miss Europa (1929): Beauty Pageants and Packaging Gender, Race, and National Identity in Interwar Hungary

Narrative Style and Gender Relations in the Creative Relationship of Miklós Mészöly and Alaine Polcz

The Double Entendre of Sex: Pornographies of Body and Society in Péter Esterházy’s Fiction

Distancing Gender in Contemporary Hungarian Fiction

The Curious Female Character in István Szabó’s Sunshine

Gendered Quest in Recent Hungarian Fantasy Films

Bibliography

Selected English-Language Bibliography of Interest for Hungarian Cultural Studies: 2018-2019

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.

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.

Slíz, Mariann. 2017. Personal Names in Medieval Hungary. Hamburg: Baar Verlag. 215 pp.

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.

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.

Legát, Tibor and Dávid Sándor (eds). 2018. Elfelejtett Budapest / Forgotten Budapest. Trans. Virág Tyekvicska. Budapest: Fortepan-könyvek / ZuckerMűvek Kft. 105 pp. Illus.

Nagy, Zsolt. 2017. Great Expectations and Interwar Realities: Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy, 1918-1941.Budapest: Central University Press. 341 pages

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.

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.

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.

Kelemen, Zoltán. 2017. Emlék a kertről [‘Memory of the Garden’]. Szeged: Juhász Gyula Felsőoktatási Kiadó. 365 pp.

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.

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.