Hungarian Rhapsodies - Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Culture

Here, the author writes with clarity, perception, and humor about a subject of importance to many Americans-reconciling their contemporary identity with a heritage from another country.

List of contents

Preface

A Note on Hungarian Names

Playtime: Adult Language Learning, Edmund Wilson, and Me

"What the Moment Told Me": The Photographs of Andre Kertesz

The Archives of St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Without Words: Hungarians in North American Fiction

The Empty Box: Hollywood Ethnicity and Joe Eszterhas

A Short Dictionary of Hungarian Stereotypes and Kitsch

Visiting Pannonia

Toward a Course on Central European Literature in Translation

The Poet as Translator: Margaret Avison's "Hungarian Snap"

Introducing Peter Esterhazy

"What Comes After": Hungarian Voices, Summer 1993

The Third Generation and the "Problem" of Ethnicty

Notes

Bibliography

Credits

Index

About the author

Richard Teleky

Product details

• Authors: Richard Teleky
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1997
• EAN: 9780295976068
• ISBN: 978-0-295-97606-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 313 g
• Series: Donald R. Ellegood Internation; Donald R. Ellegood International Publications; Donald R. Ellegood Internation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)