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{"title":"Szirtes, George. 2019. The Photographer at Sixteen - The Death and Life of a Fighter. Quercus, London: Maclehose Press. 205 pp.","authors":"D. Szőke","doi":"10.5195/ahea.2020.412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.412","url":null,"abstract":"George Szirtes’s memoir The Photographer at Sixteen, winner of the East Anglia Book Award for Biography and Memoir, long-listed for the Wingate Prize and one of the Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year, is a moving and absorbing recollection of this poet’s maternal heritage. The book’s undeniable merit is that with the reconstruction of his mother’s figure, Szirtes manages to give meaning to his own Hungarian and Jewish roots, addressing such questions as national and religious identity, displacement, trauma, minority existence and integration in a foreign culture. By doing so, Szirtes powerfully combines historical and autobiographical facts with his artistic imagination, his desire to keep the memory of his mother Magda alive, to recapture her character from fragments of memory, and to ponder about who she was. The figure emerging in this book is of a woman with an iron will and a strong presence, who could be overcome only by her poor health and weak heart. This woman wished to conceal her Jewish identity from her children, and she even made arrangements of a second marriage for her husband once she would be dead. Szirtes’s book is a tender portrait of a mother who survived the most terrible event of the twentieth century, the Holocaust, and who fought for the survival of her family, which could only be achieved at the price of their complete abandonment of their original Jewish identity. After all she had lived through in the Holocaust, at age fifty-one Magda Szirtes took her own life with an overdose of pills. Over four decades after her death, Szirtes ceaselessly attempted to immortalize Magda in his poetry. Nevertheless, it is the form of the memoir that gives the author a better chance to get closer to his parents’ past and thus fill in the blank pages of his family history. This authorial intention is supported by the author's choice of delineating his narrative in a reverse order, meaning by proceeding from the present to the past instead of vice-versa. For Szirtes, going backward in time is “like healing a wound, returning to a perfect unwounded beginning where all is innocence and potential” (5). Like in Martin Amis’s novel Time’s Arrow (1991), or in the movie Memento (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2000), reverse chronology is used to highlight the imprint and burden of trauma on the characters and to head toward the time of innocence, the beginning, out of which the trauma later evolves. Photographs, says Szirtes, “make a home in memory and settle in like cuckoos, ousting live images, the tiny mental film clips that appear to constitute all we recall of reality, [...] a frozen moment with life flowing on before and after it” (20). These words bear a striking","PeriodicalId":40442,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Cultural Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"257-259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44326380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Kossuth’s Twin-Soul to the Nation’s Chief Nurse: the Legacy of Zsuzsanna Kossuth Meszlényi","authors":"Nóra Deák","doi":"10.5195/ahea.2020.384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.384","url":null,"abstract":"In this study the personal life and professional career of Zsuzsanna Kossuth, the youngest sister of Lajos Kossuth, is discussed based on primary and secondary sources with special emphasis on her physical and emotional journey into exile, where she was surrounded by both Hungarian emigres and American intellectuals. By the time she arrived in the United States in 1853, her personal life had been full of ups and downs: she had lost her husband and baby son within a year of each other, spent months in prison twice and had become sick, with only a cough initially, then pneumonia and finally “pulmonary affections.” In spite of the many setbacks she suffered, Kossuth also stands apart for the unusual reason that she had a career: in April, 1849, during the Hungarian War of Independence, she was appointed the Chief Nurse of camp hospitals. Although she has not become as famous as Florence Nightingale, viewed as the founder of modern nursing, Zsuzsanna Kossuth organized seventy-two camp hospitals and a network of volunteer nurses five years previous to the Crimean War. The year 2017 was dedicated in Hungary to her memory commemorating the bicentenary of her birth in particular and to the profession of nursing in general. Her legacy should be promoted globally.","PeriodicalId":40442,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Cultural Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45831815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Laczó, Ferenc (ed.). 2019. Confronting Devastation: Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors from Hungary. Toronto: Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, XI, 2019. 453 pp, ill.","authors":"Judith Szapor","doi":"10.5195/ahea.2020.410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.410","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>-</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":40442,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Cultural Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"252-254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47366734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Selected English-Language Bibliography of Interest for Hungarian Cultural Studies: 2019-2020","authors":"Zsuzsanna Varga","doi":"10.5195/ahea.2020.396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.396","url":null,"abstract":"As the above title indicates, because of the publication schedule of Hungarian Cultural Studies this bibliography straddles 2019-2020, covering the period since the publication in Fall of 2019 of last year’s bibliography in this journal. Each year’s bibliography may also be supplemented by earlier items, which were retrieved onlyrecently. Although this bibliography series can only concentrate on English-language items, occasional items of particular interest in other languages may be included. For a more extensive bibliography of Hungarian Studies from about 2000 to 2010, for which this is a continuing update, see Louise O. Vasvári, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, and Carlo Salzani. “Bibliography for Work in Hungarian Studies as Comparative Central European Studies.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2011): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/hungarianstudiesbibliography","PeriodicalId":40442,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Cultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48597927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Maxwell, Alexander. 2019. Everyday Nationalism in Hungary, 1789-1867. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter. 258 pp.","authors":"C. Demark","doi":"10.5195/ahea.2020.414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.414","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>-</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":40442,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Cultural Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"263-266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47733221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Exceptional Case of Women’s Self-Advocacy in Interwar Hungary: Cécile Tormay","authors":"J. Kádár","doi":"10.5195/ahea.2020.385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.385","url":null,"abstract":"A Hungarian writer who became a prominent public figure in the Horthy era, Cecile Tormay’s (1875-1937) fame and success was principally due to her memoir, Bujdoso konyv [‘The Hiding Book’], a work published in 1920-21 that depicts the two Hungarian revolutions following World War I. This popular work enjoyed several editions during the interwar period and was translated into English and French for propaganda purposes. After World War II, Bujdoso konyv was among the first works banned by Hungarian authorities for its anti-Semitism. Hailed as the most notable female author of the interwar period, Tormay’s name rose anew after the fall of socialism in 1989. Fueled by the official biography written two years after her death in the Horthy era by the conservative professor of literature, Janos Hankiss, a revival in the cult surrounding Tormay’s work has taken place in recent years. Hankiss portrayed Tormay as a woman of Hungarian noble descent whose deeds were motivated by sheer patriotism. This paper contends that Cecile Tormay was embraced by the interwar elite for her active role in the counter-revolutionary conspiracy against the First Hungarian Republic.","PeriodicalId":40442,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Cultural Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"15-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47633976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Borgos, Anna. 2018. Holnaplányok: Nők a pszichoanalízis budapesti iskolájában ('Girls of Tomorrow: Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis'). Budapest: Noran Libro Kiadó. 300 pp. Illus.","authors":"Anita Kurimay","doi":"10.5195/ahea.2020.401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.401","url":null,"abstract":"Holnaplányok: Nők a pszichoanalízis budapesti iskolájában ['Girls of Tomorrow: Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis'] explores the lives of the first two generations of Hungarian female psychoanalysts from the early twentieth century to the post World War II era. Based on extensive research and a wide array of sources, the book provides not only captivating life stories of some of the most prominent female Hungarian psychoanalysts but also an illuminating portrayal of the tumultuous relationship of the experiences of these New Woman, Jewishness, and psychoanalysis during the first half of the twentieth century. The book opens with a brief overview of classical psychoanalytical theories on womanhood. In her discussion of the psychoanalytical ideas of Sigmund Freud and his followers on femininity and female sexuality, Anna Borgos sets the stage for the inherent contradiction between psychoanalytical theories as embedded in and propagating a patriarchal and malecentered world and psychoanalysis as a profession that enables the success and high representation of women among its practitioners. While Freud, along with many of his male colleagues, theorized women as passive and considered intellectual aspirations in women as a masculine wish serving to compensate for failed femininity, Borgos highlights how, in practice, women took on important roles within the psychoanalytical profession from early on. Borgos's overview of Freudian psychoanalytical theories and terminology on women’s “passivity, masochisms, narcissism and penis envy” (25) and her introduction of some of the most wellknown female analysists in Freud’s immediate circle (including Anna Freud, Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, Joan Riviere, Melanie Klein, Sabina Spielrein, and Lou Andreas-Salomé) exemplifies her ability to distill complex psychoanalytical theories for even a general audience. This capacity, which reverberates throughout the entire book, along with a nuanced approach to discussing psychoanalytical ideas, shows that already in the profession’s earliest days there were varied alternative theoretical views on women. Ultimately, Borgos illustrates how, in theorizing about women, Freud and his followers were deeply rooted in the bourgeois gender norms of their times. At the same time, this book pays attention not only to what Freud said but also to what he did as a proponent of women’s equality, sexual education, and female psychoanalysts. In all these regards Freud is proven to have lived and acted ahead of his time.","PeriodicalId":40442,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Cultural Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"218-220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43187048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Apor, Balázs. 2017. The Invisible Shining: The Cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 1945-1956. Budapest: Central European University Press, 388 pp.","authors":"D. Reynolds","doi":"10.5195/ahea.2020.406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.406","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>-</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":40442,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Cultural Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"236-239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43875548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The History of the Poetic Mind of János Pilinszky","authors":"Gábor Szmeskó","doi":"10.5195/ahea.2020.390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.390","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most important poets of postwar Hungarian literature, Janos Pilinszky’s (1921-1981) poetry represents the problems of connecting with the Other, the imprints of Second World War trauma and the struggle with God’s distance and silence. Although, unlike the case of most of his contemporaries in Eastern bloc Hungary, his poetry has been translated into several languages, he is hardly known in English-speaking countries. The metaphysically accented lyrical worldview and creator-centered aesthetics—which shows parallels with the Christian poetry of Michael Edwards—of this Hungarian poet are difficult to link or to bring into discourse. On the occasion of the most recent publication (Pilinszky 2019) of Pilinszky’s non-literary publications which are practically unknown to non-Hungarian scholars, I attempt to outline the major attributes of Pilinszky’s poetry and aesthetics in order to highlight—with a mystical approach in mind—the intertwining presence of said lyre and aesthetics in his poem, In memoriam F. M. Dosztojevszkij [‘In Memoriam F. M. Dostoevsky’].","PeriodicalId":40442,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Cultural Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"98-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44651178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Creating a Gendered Transnational and Multigenerational Trauma Narrative in Márta Mészáros’s Film, Északi fény [‘Aurora Borealis’]","authors":"A. Schwartz","doi":"10.5195/ahea.2020.394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.394","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, Schwartz offers a gendered analysis of Meszaros’s most recent feature film [‘Aurora Borealis’]. She argues that the film presents a transnational narrative about repressed traumatic memories as they pertain to sexual and political violence dating back to the early 1950s. The film explores the effects of postmemory (Hirsch) through three generations across Hungary, Austria, Russia (the former Soviet Union), and present-day Spain. With the help of theories of trauma (Herman, Kaplan, Caruth, LaCapra) and through a close reading of the symbols and colors used in the film, Schwartz reflects on the healing potential of narrative recovery together with the role children born as a result of armed conflict can play in rethinking narratives of war and in exploring their own transnational bridge-building potential in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":40442,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Cultural Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"165-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46445745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}