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The Space Concepts as Intercultural Experience in Contemporary Hungarian Prose
The Space Concepts as Intercultural Experience in Contemporary Hungarian Prose

Author(s): Éva Bányai
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: Hungarian literature; alterity/alienage; space concepts; Gábor Vida

Summary/Abstract: In recent years a number of contemporary Hungarian prose writings have appeared in which the visualization of the interlinguistic and intercultural experience plays a highly significant role. In the prose writings which come into existence in the intercultural border-space, a heterogeneity of the cultural space unfolds. The estrangement from the narratives of self-culture and the recurrence to these give way to another culture. This phenomenon can be analysed in the short story volume by Gábor Vida, Not free and not royal [Nem szabad és nem királyi].

  • Issue Year: 3/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 95-102
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English