APPROACHING FROM BOTH SIDES – CONTEMPORARY HUNGARIAN-GERMAN MINORITY LITERATURE AS A CHALLENGE FOR THE HUNGARIAN STUDIES
APPROACHING FROM BOTH SIDES – CONTEMPORARY HUNGARIAN-GERMAN MINORITY LITERATURE AS A CHALLENGE FOR THE HUNGARIAN STUDIES
Author(s): Erika RegnerSubject(s): Studies of Literature, German Literature, Hungarian Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: minority literature; Hungarian-German literature; identity; minority culture; cross-cultural studies;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to propose a cross-cultural approach to contemporary Hungarian-German minority literature comprising texts written both in German and in Hungarian in order to give an adequate description of the Hungarian-German minority’s literary scene. Also, the significance of this specific minority literature within the context of culture and heritage conservation and its true identity-forming potential can be analysed that way. First results indicate that Hungarian-German literature can help to (re)gain an authentic minority consciousness, but this requires not only a revaluation of the Hungarian-German literary institutions but also the capability to reinvent Hungarian-German literature on the part of the youngest generation of minority writers.
- Issue Year: 27/2013
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 133-145
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
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