Women's Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers

In Women's Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers, Anna Menyh rt presents the cases of five women writers whose legacy literary criticism has neglected or distorted, thereby depriving succeeding Hungarian generations of vital cultural memory and the inspiration that brings. The bold voices of poets Ren e Erdős and Minka Cz bel challenged gender norms in relation to sex and relationships. gnes Nemes Nagy, celebrated for her 'masculine' poems, felt she must suppress her 'feminine' poems. Famous writer's widow Ilona Harmos Kosztol nyi's autobiographical writing tackles the physical challenges of girl's adolescence, and offers us a woman's thoughtful Holocaust narrative. Anna Lesznai, migr e and visual artist, drew on techniques from the crafts of patchworking and embroidery in structuring her family saga.