Louise Olga Vasvari

• Professor Emerita
• Stony Brook University

Az 1990-es években Amerikában az életírás egy új műfaja jelent meg, a kutató memoárja (academic memoir), amelyet gyakran bevándorlók írtak, vagy olyanok, akik az osztályhovatartozásuk vagy a szexuális orientációjuk miatt csak igen nehezen tudtak beilleszkedni. Mohó érdeklődéssel olvastam ezeket a műveket, de valahogy mindig arra a következtetésre j...

Amint azt ennek a lapnak az előbbi számában is írtam, Fehér Lili Nem ér a nevem: egy szökött zsidó naplója című, 1945-ben megjelent művének elemzésemben, a világháború után íródott magyar női visszaemlékezés-irodalom igen hamar kiestek a kulturális emlékezetből. Célom az, hogy elősegítsem, hogy helyesebben ítéljük meg, milyen változatosak és összet...

The deportation memoir of Biri mama (Irén Reményi) is the third publication byTamás Kieselbach, of a book series he created, Sorsfordulók: a 20. századi Magyarország drámai pillantai [‘Turns of Fate: The Dramatic Moments of Twentieth-Century Hungary’], in which his aim was to illustrate the four historical turning points of the twentieth century: 1...

Jelen tanulmány egy nagyobb, folyamatban lévő, kritikai kultúrakutatás- és gender studies-fókuszú kutatásomnak, a Women Writing Holocaust Lives and Beyond nak a része, amit a nőknek a társadalmi nemükkel kapcsolatos élményeit vizsgálja a második világháború és a holokauszt ideje alatt. A kutatásom egyik konkrét célja, hogy rehabilitáljon féltucat f...

Kinga Király conducted interviews with ten North Transylvanian survivors who represent the last witnesses of a generation that is about to disappear and leave us with the question of what to remember and how. On reading the testimonies catalogued in the volume Király produced from those interviews, I realized that I felt compelled to make further c...

Although only a decade in age separates each one from the next, the women whose life stories are discussed here represent three distinct Holocaust generations of Hungarian-speaking women. I aim to examine the recently published memories/memoirs of these three women whose narratives are all centered in the Holocaust when the deportations began in Hu...

In this interdisciplinary article that draws on the intersections of Hungarian and Jewish Studies within a framework of cultural studies and gender studies, Louise O. Vasvári investigates the socio-political role of beauty pageants in 1920s European and—more specifically—in Hungarian social, political and cultural life. The article is structured as...

In my interdisciplinary analysis of foodways which combines Gender Studies with Holocaust Studies, I aim to demonstrate the cultural and gendered significance of the wartime sharing of recipes among starving women prisoners in concentration camps. This study will further discuss the continuing importance of food talk and food writing in the afterma...

Changing the name Margit Stellar (Mrs. József Krauss) to Anna, a pseudonym, Mrs. Sándor Dévényi, the real name of the writer whose journal is discussed in the article. Also, changing the name Szebenyi to Szebeny. The original article can be found via the DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2016.260

In this article, a follow-up of her 2014 contribution in this journal on Hungarian women’s Holocaust diaries, Vasvári discusses six war diaries from 1944-45, which until recently lay forgotten in archives or in private hands. Two of the diaries are by Jewish victims, Margit Stellar and Jenő Lévai, who describe their persecution, while the others ar...

As the above title indicates, this bibliography straddles 2012-2013, covering the period since the publication in Fall of 2012 of last year’s bibliography in this journal. Each yearly bibliography is supplemented by earlier items that were only retrieved recently. Although this bibliography can only concentrate on English-language items, occasional...

As the above title indicates, because of the publication schedule of Hungarian Cultural Studies this bibliography straddles 2014-2015, covering the period since the publication in the fall of 2014 of last year’s bibliography in this journal. Each year’s bibliography is supplemented by earlier items, which were only retrieved recently. Although this...

In her article "En-gendering Memory through Holocaust Alimentary Life Writing" Louise O. Vasvári aims to underline the cultural and gendered significance of the sharing of recipes as a survival tool by starving women in concentration camps during the Holocaust and the continuing role of food memories in the writing of Holocaust survivor women she c...

In her article "Introduction to and Bibliography for the Study of Alimentary Life Writing and Recipe Writing as War Literature" Louise O. Vasvári defines the concept of "alimentary life writing" and locates it in the broader multidisciplinary context of alimentary history, the history of everyday life, gender studies, trauma, and war and holocaust...

In this paper, in commemoration of the seventieth anniversary year of 1944 in Hungary, I explore selected women’s Holocaust diaries, memoirs, letters, and other less studied documents, such as recipe books, all written during the war, which can provide invaluable resources for understanding the experiences of the victims of war, by personalizing th...

As the above title indicates, because of the publication schedule of Hungarian Cultural Studies this bibliography straddles 2013-2014, covering the period since the publication in Fall of 2013 of last year’s bibliography in this journal. Each year’s bibliography is supplemented by earlier items that were only retrieved recently. Although this bibli...

In their article “The Contextual Study of Literature and Culture, Globalization, and Digital Humanities” Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári discuss the situation of the humanities with regard to the discipline of comparative literature and the fields of world literature, cultural studies, and comparative cultural studies. Their postula...

Illustrates gendered political discourse in the U.S. through a case study of the 2008 presidential campaign. While the campaign turned into a plebiscite on gender and sexual politics with Hillary Clinton and other female political figures depicted in the most traditionally misogynist terms, Barack Obama has in some leftist circles been seen as an e...

As the above title indicates, this bibliography straddles 2012-2013, covering the period since the publication in Fall of 2012 of last year’s bibliography in this journal. Each yearly bibliography is supplemented by earlier items that were only retrieved recently. Although this bibliography can only concentrate on English-language items, occasional...

The "Bibliography for Work in Hungarian Studies as Comparative Central European Studies" includes English-language scholarship only. It includes scholarship published about Hungarian culture in the widest definition thus in several disciplines, e.g., (comparative) cultural studies, literature, history, political science, linguistics, gender studies...

The aim of this study is to define linguistic gender[lessness], with particular reference in the latter part of the article to Hungarian, and to show why it is a feminist issue. I will discuss the [socio]linguistics of linguistic gender in three types of languages, those, like German and the Romance languages, among others, which possess grammatica...

cruel and illogical tricks in which they specialize will become clearer if they are studied in the context of the grotesque and anti-social activities of the universal folkloric figure of the trickster, which is their subliterary archetype. According to Jung the trickster, an archetypal psychic structure of extreme antiquity embodies an absolutely...

In this paper I will discuss Alaine Polcz’s Asszony a fronton (1991) ‘ Woman on the Front,’ subtitled Egy fejezet az életemb?l ‘A Chapter from My Life,’ as an extreme example of self-contradictory life writing, offering a fragmented self-representation of the author’s subjectivity through the narrative itineraries of both her privatized and publici...

In her paper "Emigrée Central European Jewish Women's Holocaust Life Writing," Louise O. Vasvári analyzes voices of women survivors from a gendered perspective in order to provide insights for both Holocaust studies and gender studies. Vasvári considers whether it can be claimed that there is a specifically female style of remembering and of testif...

In her "Introduction to and Bibliography of Central European Women's Holocaust Life Writing in English," Louise O. Vasvári discusses aspects and perspectives of women's life writing, including her criteria of selection, the problematics of sourcing, issues of translation, and processes of publication. While the authors listed in the bibliography ar...

wo decades ago Dorothy Severin (1978-79 (1989)) proposed that La Celestina's contemporary readers understood it as a as a funny book ―"a comic work with a tragic ending" (276)―, but that readers today often miss this humor. She classified four levels of humor ―the verbal, parodic, dramatic, and satirical, specifying the first as one of the most imp...

The European ballad, an orally-performed narrative song, developed in the medieval period with many cross-fertilizations among ballad types in various language areas. Nevertheless, to date there have appeared only a handful of comparative studies of these pan-european themes, with investigations dominated by the Finnish geographical school, whose p...

Papers in the volume are by scholars working in Holocaust Studies in Australia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Serbia, the United Kingdom, and the US.

This study is part of a larger project to integrate into Holocaust discourses the voices of women survivors, which can provide valuable insights both for Holocaust studies and gen- der studies. I first briefly review some of the main issues relating to the need to study female Holocaust (life) writing, in order to o=er a theoretical frame for the m...

The Griselda story of a noble’s abuse of his wife in order to test her obedience has been endlessly recirculated from its first textualized version as the last and most famous tale in Boccaccio’s Decameron (1349- 1351). Petrarch, who in his letter to Boccaccio in 1372-1373 objected to the lewdness of the Decameron in general, blaming it on the low...

Este nuevo volumen ofrece ensayos de especialistas anglofonos sobre el Libro de Buen Amor, obra monumental del siglo XIV. El volumen responde a la necesidad de un enfoque actualizado que examina el estado de las cuestiones principales (como son la de la autoria y su contexto, la metrica, las tradiciones manuscrita e impresa, el uso de exempla y pro...

In her paper "Queer Theory and Discourses of Desire," Louise O. Vasvári proposes that the multiplicity of ways that language constructs -- or silences -- the socially constructed expression of erotic desire is a necessary complement to the study of gendered and of sexual identity. Vasvári contributes to queer theory and its subfield, queer linguist...

Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature, the first English language volume on the work of the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Literature contains papers by scholars in Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, and the USA, as well as historical papers about the background of the Holocaust in Hungary.

The present collection of studies is the second volume published by Tamesis to be dedicated to the Libro de Buen Amor, the first being the ‘Libro de buen amor’Studies, edited by G. B. Gybbon-Monypenny (1970a), who died before we were able to complete this volume. He had kindly agreed to write a Preface for us and it is with great sadness, therefore...

Survey articles and fresh readings of the Libro .

REVIEWS The Heterotextual Body of the "Mora Morilla." By Louise 0. Vasvari. London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1999. 116 pages. The Heterotextual Body of the "Mora morilla," by Louise 0. Vasvari is an engaging new study of the ballad which begins "Yo m'era mora moraima, morilla d'un bel catar." The ballad has...

In her paper, "Examples of the Motif of the Shrew in European Literature and Film," Louise O. Vasvári presents the shrew-taming story as a masterplot of both Eastern and Western folklore and literature concerned with establishing the appropriate power dynamic between a married couple. Vasvári firts reviews the comparative groundwork of the story sh...

In her article, "A Comparative Approach to European Folk Poetry and the Erotic Wedding Motif," Louise O. Vasvari posits that while the corpus of folk poetry in any one area of Europe always differs from neighboring traditions, of greater interest is the existence of a large amount of related material across the continent. Nevertheless, while resear...

En este número no se incluyeron resúmenes ni palabras clave.

En este número no se incluyeron resúmenes ni palabras clave.

Se reseñó el libro: Tradition and technique in "El Libro del Cavallero Zifar".

Se reeñó el libro: La lingua di Berceo: osservazioni sulla lingua dei manoscritti della "Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos".

My aim in this paper is to recuperate elements of bodily performance, particularly the acting out of copulation, in the medieval Schwank-or fabliau-tales. There is much closer mimetic similarity than is usually recognized between these tales and their dramatic reworking in later farces, such as the Fastnachtspiele. While the key element in the gene...