Rózsa Ignácz’s <i>Torockói gyász</i> [‘Torockó Mourning’]: Identity Beyond the Borders of Time and Space
Rózsa Ignácz’s historical novel Torockói gyász [‘Torockó Mourning’] (1958) deals with the staggering tragedy of Transylvanian Torockó in 1702. But the referential pattern that emerges from the dramatic plot clearly points beyond eighteenth-century time and space in partly overt and mostly covert way...
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| description | Rózsa Ignácz’s historical novel Torockói gyász [‘Torockó Mourning’] (1958) deals with the staggering tragedy of Transylvanian Torockó in 1702. But the referential pattern that emerges from the dramatic plot clearly points beyond eighteenth-century time and space in partly overt and mostly covert ways: to the early twentieth-century post-Trianon fate of the Hungarians in Transylvania, and beyond, to the destructive post-1945 totalitarian communist regime in Hungary, as well as to the backlash of the 1956 anticommunist and anti-Soviet revolution and war of independence. The narrative techniques of expanding early eighteenth-century time and space will be examined through the ways in which thematic threads of collective identity are woven in the novel in general, and the customs, habits, and the religious affiliation of the community are handled in particular. Theories of Jan Assmann, Michael Bamberg, David Herman, Erving Goffman, Fritz Heider and Anselm L. Strauss as well as observations of Ignácz researchers such as Lajos Kántor, Gabriella F. Komáromi, and Erzsébet Dani will be used. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8fb9c06ddf5e456a83096a1e4ca893d42022-12-21T22:46:44ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghHungarian Cultural Studies2471-965X2016-10-0190284210.5195/ahea.2016.249245Rózsa Ignácz’s <i>Torockói gyász</i> [‘Torockó Mourning’]: Identity Beyond the Borders of Time and SpaceZoltán Abádi-Nagy0University of DebrecenRózsa Ignácz’s historical novel Torockói gyász [‘Torockó Mourning’] (1958) deals with the staggering tragedy of Transylvanian Torockó in 1702. But the referential pattern that emerges from the dramatic plot clearly points beyond eighteenth-century time and space in partly overt and mostly covert ways: to the early twentieth-century post-Trianon fate of the Hungarians in Transylvania, and beyond, to the destructive post-1945 totalitarian communist regime in Hungary, as well as to the backlash of the 1956 anticommunist and anti-Soviet revolution and war of independence. The narrative techniques of expanding early eighteenth-century time and space will be examined through the ways in which thematic threads of collective identity are woven in the novel in general, and the customs, habits, and the religious affiliation of the community are handled in particular. Theories of Jan Assmann, Michael Bamberg, David Herman, Erving Goffman, Fritz Heider and Anselm L. Strauss as well as observations of Ignácz researchers such as Lajos Kántor, Gabriella F. Komáromi, and Erzsébet Dani will be used.http://ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ahea/article/view/249Transylvanian literature, Rózsa Ignácz, identity, collective identity, narrative |
| spellingShingle | Zoltán Abádi-Nagy Rózsa Ignácz’s <i>Torockói gyász</i> [‘Torockó Mourning’]: Identity Beyond the Borders of Time and Space Hungarian Cultural Studies Transylvanian literature, Rózsa Ignácz, identity, collective identity, narrative |
| title | Rózsa Ignácz’s <i>Torockói gyász</i> [‘Torockó Mourning’]: Identity Beyond the Borders of Time and Space |
| title_full | Rózsa Ignácz’s <i>Torockói gyász</i> [‘Torockó Mourning’]: Identity Beyond the Borders of Time and Space |
| title_fullStr | Rózsa Ignácz’s <i>Torockói gyász</i> [‘Torockó Mourning’]: Identity Beyond the Borders of Time and Space |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rózsa Ignácz’s <i>Torockói gyász</i> [‘Torockó Mourning’]: Identity Beyond the Borders of Time and Space |
| title_short | Rózsa Ignácz’s <i>Torockói gyász</i> [‘Torockó Mourning’]: Identity Beyond the Borders of Time and Space |
| title_sort | rozsa ignacz s i torockoi gyasz i torocko mourning identity beyond the borders of time and space |
| topic | Transylvanian literature, Rózsa Ignácz, identity, collective identity, narrative |
| url | http://ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ahea/article/view/249 |
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