The Forms of Trauma in the Poems of Dóra Mărcuțiu-Rácz and Gizella Hervay Cover Image

A trauma alakzatai Mãrcuþiu-Rácz Dóra és Hervay Gizella verseiben
The Forms of Trauma in the Poems of Dóra Mărcuțiu-Rácz and Gizella Hervay

Author(s): Réka Fazakas
Subject(s): Hungarian Literature
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: everyday life; perspective; trauma literature; war trauma, women’s position

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the boundaries of trauma poetry in terms of a comparative analysis. The author focuses on two volumes: one of them written by Dóra Mărcuțiu-Rácz, már minden nő hazament (all women went home), published in 2020, which depicts the vulnerable and complex situation of women in society. The other element of the comparison is Gizella Hervay's Virág a végtelenben (A Flower in the Infinite), which presents the trauma of war through the perspective of everyday life. The author of the article brings these two volumes into dialogue, exploring what they have in common in terms of their conceptualisation of trauma. The study explores how collective trauma is embedded into identity, how it affects the text, and how it guides the perspective of the speaker or the composition of the volume.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 70-82
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Hungarian