Gendered Narrative Subjectivity: Some Hungarian and American Women Writers

ISBN-13: 9783631663769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 149 str.

Edit Zsadanyi

Opis

This 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, Jolan Foldes, Zsuzsa Rakovszky, Agata Gordon, Virag Erdos, Zsuzsa Forgacs, 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.

Spis treści

Contents: 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 Erdös - Agáta Gordon - Alaine Polcz - Gertrude Stein - Kathy Acker - Jhumpa Lahiri.

O autorze

Edit Zsadányi is Associate Professor at the Cultural Studies Department of Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary. Her fields of research are 20th Century Hungarian and American literature, with a particular emphasis on Cultural Theory and Gender Studies.