Hungarian writers in the interwar USA: the fiction of József Reményi and Áron Tamási

In the Interwar period, József Reményi (1891–1956) and Áron Tamási (1897–1966) wrote fiction about the experience of Hungarian immigrants in the USA. Reményi immigrated before WWI and made his residence permanent after his naturalization, whereas Tamási moved to the USA in 1923 but returned to his h...

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Published inNeohelicon (Budapest) Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 207 - 224
Main Author Hajdu, Péter
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 01.06.2023
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Careers
Comparative Literature
Cultural and Media Studies
Emigration
Employment
Fiction
Hungarian literature
Immigrants
Immigration
Interwar period
Literature
Multilingualism
Personal profiles
Tamasi, Aron (1897-1966)
Writers
Writing
Minority experience
Immigration
Cultural community
Spiritual quest
Racism
Modernism
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Summary:In the Interwar period, József Reményi (1891–1956) and Áron Tamási (1897–1966) wrote fiction about the experience of Hungarian immigrants in the USA. Reményi immigrated before WWI and made his residence permanent after his naturalization, whereas Tamási moved to the USA in 1923 but returned to his homeland in 1926. The paper contrasts their personal experiences as immigrants in America, discusses their descriptions of Hungarian immigrant life in general, and analyzes their representation strategies. In their representations of the immigrant experience, family relationships, cultural community, language, race, and the motivation to undergo a spiritual quest are all central. Their narrative techniques are somewhat innovative and characterized by discontinuity.
ISSN:0324-4652
1588-2810
DOI:10.1007/s11059-023-00689-7