LEADER 03954nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910806146803321 005 20240418050226.0 010 $a9780295800172 010 $a0295800178 035 $a(CKB)2550000000037179 035 $a(EBL)3444300 035 $a(OCoLC)932315150 035 $a(OCoLC)740450365 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse38622 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444300 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468616 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL815368 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444300 035 $a(DE-B1597)726211 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780295800172 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000037179 100 $a19970211d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHungarian rhapsodies $eessays on ethnicity, identity, and culture /$fRichard Teleky 205 $a1st ed. 210 $a[Seattle] $cUniversity of Washington Press$dc1997 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aDonald R. Ellegood International Publications 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 1 $a9780295975825 311 1 $a0295975822 311 1 $a9780295976068 311 1 $a0295976063 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aThe Third Generation and the ""Problem"" of Ethnicity Notes ; Bibliography; Credits; Index 330 $aLike the renowned American writer Edmund Wilson, who began to learn Hungarian at the age of 65, Richard Teleky started his study of that difficult language as an adult. Unlike Wilson, he is a third-generation Hungarian American with a strong desire to understand how his ethnic background has affected the course of his life. He writes with clarity, perception, and humor about a subject of importance to many North Americans - reconciling their contemporary identity with a heritage from another country. But more than a collection of essays on ethnicity by a talented writer, the book is structured to share with the reader insights on language, literature, art, and community from a cultural perspective. The book is also unified by the author's attention to certain concerns, including the meaning of multiculturalism, the power of a language to shape one's thinking, the persistence of anti-Semitism, the significance of displacement and nostalgia in emigration, the importance of understanding the past, the need for a narrative tradition in the writing of fiction, and the power of books in Central Europe. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, the book makes a contribution to several fields: Central European and Hungarian studies; North American immigrant and ethnic studies; contemporary literature; comparative literature; and popular culture. 410 0$aDonald R. Ellegood International Publications 606 $aHungarians$zForeign countries$xEthnic identity 606 $aHungarian Americans$xHistory 607 $aHungary$xCivilization 615 0$aHungarians$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aHungarian Americans$xHistory. 676 $a943.9 700 $aTeleky$b Richard$f1946-$01705574 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806146803321 996 $aHungarian rhapsodies$94092382 997 $aUNINA