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The phenomenon of Hungarian literature in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia
The article takes a historical approach to the phenomenon of Hungarian literature in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia. As a result of peace treaties ending the First World War not only new states, but also new literatures appeared on the map of Europe. Hungarian authors of the former Austria-Hungary started to write a completely new literature in a completely new state which required a completely new terminology as well. This article tries to shed light on key factors that shaped this literature and the identity of its authors, as well as on issues that preoccupied literary scholars from its early years to the present days. Since the article was based on source texts in Hungarian language that are not accessible in other languages, it can be also considered as a short summary and overview of Hungarian literature written in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia and the space for introducing its most relevant literary scholars, literary historians, and their most important theoretical and historical works on this phenomenon. In this way, it can also provide a starting point for further research.
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Deterritorializing Narrative Strategies of New Literatures in English: Andriana Ierodiaconou’s The Women’s Coffee Shop
As one of the New Literatures in English, Cypriot Anglophone literature has only recently come to be the focus of literary researchers and scholars. This article deals with Andriana Ierodiaconou’s 2012 novel The Women’s Coffee Shop in the context of the New Literatures in English, starting from the theoretical and philosophical premises of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. While situating the novel within the framework of minor literatures and rhizomatic narratives, its main goal is to define and describe, through close reading, the narrative strategies that reflect and/or strengthen the deterritorializing effect as a key feature of a minor literature. To this effect, the article analyzes the figure of a deterritorialized narrator, characterization that oscillates between deterritorialization and reterritorialization, the narrative method of dreamwork and narrative modes that potentially create new territories, as well as the rhizomatic narrative gap and the open ending. To summarize, the narrative of the novel is exemplary of the position that Cypriot Anglophone literature occupies as one of the (minor) New Literatures in English.
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Reading Mennonite Writing
Mennonite literature has long been viewed as an expression of community identity. However, scholars in Mennonite literary studies have urged a reconsideration of the field's past and a reconceptualization of its future. This is exactly what Reading Mennonite Writing does.
Drawing on the transnational turn in literary studies, Robert Zacharias positions Mennonite literature in North America as \"a mode of circulation and reading\" rather than an expression of a distinct community. He tests this reframing with a series of methodological experiments that open new avenues of critical engagement with the field's unique configuration of faith-based intercultural difference. These include cross-sectional readings in nonnarrative literary history; archival readings of transatlantic life writing; Canadian rewritings of Mexican film's deployment of Mennonite theology as fantasy; an examination of the fetishistic structure of ethnicity as a \"thing\" that has enabled Mennonite identity to function in a post-identity age; and, finally, a tentative reinvestment in ideals of Mennonite community via the surprising routes of queerness and speculative fiction. In so doing, Zacharias reads Mennonite writing in North America as a useful case study in the shifting position of minor literatures in the wake of the transnational turn.
Theoretically sophisticated, this study of minor transnationalism will appeal to specialists in Mennonite literature and to scholars working in the broader field of transnational literary studies.
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Like Dust in the Wind
What would it mean for the politically-dominant parties in a colonial or semi-colonial context to produce a minor literature? Is it even possible? This article seeks to address these questions in the context of Japanese-language literature in Manchuria and Manchukuo by introducing and analyzing the Manchuria-period writing of Takagi Kyōzō (1903–1987), focusing on his short story Fūjin (Dust in the wind), and by bringing to light the literary and political complexities associated with his self-perceived “minority.” The article provides essential background to both Takagi as an individual and the Japanese-language Manchurian literary community in general, including a variety of earlier approaches to Japanese-language Manchurian literature. After establishing Takagi’s literary upbringing by Fukushi Kojiro (1889–1946) and the regionalism (chihōshugi) and “dialect poetry” (hōgenshi) movements of the 1920s and 30s, the article uses close reading of his literary and autobiographical work to argue that—despite his position of privilege on the continent as an ethnic Japanese national—Takagi both lacked agency as a historical subject and was well aware of his resulting complicated status in Manchuria. He demonstrated this understanding through the deployment of plant, animal, and other natural images, often literally de-humanizing his Japanese protagonists by reforming them into aspects of the continental landscape. The article concludes by gesturing toward resonances between Takagi’s writing and the place of his Japanese contemporaries in Manchuria, as well as his representation of non-Japanese subjects in his writing.
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The Sublime and the Creation of Identity in Minor Literaturein a Comparison of “The Old Man and the Sea” and “The Prey'' / YÜCE HİSSİ VE MİNÖR EDEBİYATTA KİMLİK OLUŞUMU ÜZERİNDEN “İHTİYAR ADAM VE DENİZ” İLE “AVINDAN EL ALAN” YAPITLARININ KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI
This paper, which suggests a twofold approach, will first examine the fish-fisherman-sea relationship with reference to Kant’s two different types of sublime, namely the ‘Mathematical Sublime’ and the ‘Dynamic Sublime’, in two works with similar subjects, written by two eminent twentieth century authors: Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and Bilge Karasu’s The Prey. This paper also aims to serve as an account of Kant’s sublime using comparative literary examples as a way to make what Kant has to say more explicit. In the second part, the paper will argue that, through analysis of the two works, their constructions of identity, and the workings of the Sublime in major and minor literature, The Prey rightly belongs to minor literature. However, it should be indicated that a detailed comparison of the two pieces in terms of their literary characteristics is the subject matter of another essay and beyond the scope of the interests of the discussion here. In other words, in the second part of this essay, it is only attempted to make a brief comparative analysis of the sublime as it relates to the creation of identity in minor literature. It is also worth emphasizing that this is just an alternative way of exploring the sublime.
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Neurasthenia and autonomic imbalance as minor diagnoses: comparison, concept and implications
A new term, autonomic imbalance (自律神經失調 or AI), which refers to a wide variety of physical and mental symptoms that are medically unexplained, has recently emerged in Taiwan. Many people compared this condition to neurasthenia, a now obsolete diagnosis. Whether neurasthenia and AI are medically the same or merely similar is a debate that is better left to clinicians; however, this article endeavours to explore the significance of the comparability in terms of socio-cultural theory of health. With Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of minor literature as reference, the objectives of this paper are as follows: to address how and why neurasthenia and AI should be treated as ‘minor diagnoses’ and consequently expose the limitations of current clinical medicine; to provide and discuss reasons why AI can be seen as a reincarnated form of neurasthenia; and to further elaborate how this approach may elevate inquiries on the varieties of medically unexplained symptoms to highlight the bodies that suffer without a legitimate name.
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Why don't we have a novel of our own?': The Anatomy of a Romanian Literary Complex
This article addresses and disproves one of the most long-standing clichés of Romanian literary criticism, namely the underdevelopment of the early novel, especially in relation to poetry. It discusses the inferiority complex and the illusion of exceptionalism that went hand in hand with this impressionistic claim about the distribution of literary genres, by looking at several critical interventions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Then, it provides a quantitative overview of the actual situation of the early Romanian novel compared to the poetry volumes published in the same period, concluding that the myth of novelistic underdevelopment was a politically useful fiction in an age of nation-building.
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Por uma literatura menor
This paper aims to present expanded functions of literary texts through the intercession of two important concepts: the ‘displacement’ proposed by Barthes in his ‘Inaugural Lecture’, and the concept of ‘minor literature’ developed by Deleuze and Guattari. The problem question that guides the research is: What are the functions of the literary text according to Barthes and Deleuze and Guattari? As methodological approach we have chosen to make entrances in the works of Franz Kafka, João Guimarães Rosa and Clarice Lispector making inferences that allow to approach these concepts in the literary narratives. As a result, we emphasize that the functions of the literary text, to Barthes, Deleuze, and Guattari, are displacements that escape the coercive forces of language - fascism - and allow the doubt about their senses, the contradiction and dynamicity of the text, characteristics that place it as minor literature.
Este artigo objetiva apresentar funções ampliadas dos textos literários por meio da intercessão de dois importantes conceitos: o de ‘deslocamento’, problematizado por Barthes na obra Aula; e o conceito de ‘literatura menor’, desenvolvido por Deleuze e Guattari. A questão problema que norteia a pesquisa é: Quais as funções do texto literário segundo Barthes e Deleuze e Guattari? Como procedimento metodológico, optou-se por fazer incursões pelas obras de Franz Kafka, João Guimarães Rosa e Clarice Lispector, realizando inferências que possibilitassem abordar esses conceitos nas narrativas literárias. Como resultado, sinaliza-se que as funções do texto literário, para Barthes, Deleuze e Guattari, são de deslocamentos que fogem das forças coercitivas da língua – o fascismo – e possibilitam a dúvida sobre seus sentidos, a contradição e a dinamicidade do texto, características que o situam como literatura ‘menor’.
Este artículo tiene el objetivo de presentar funciones ampliadas de los textos literarios por medio de la intercesión de dos importantes conceptos: el de ‘desplazamiento’, problematizado por Barthes en la obra Aula; y el concepto de ‘literatura menor’, desarrollado por Deleuze y Guattari. La cuestión problema que guía la investigación es: ¿Cuáles las funciones del texto literario según Barthes y Deleuze y Guattari? Como procedimiento metodológico, se optó por hacer incursiones por las obras de Franz Kafka, João Guimarães Rosa y Clarice Lispector, realizando inferencias que posibilitaran tratar estos conceptos en las narrativas literarias. Como resultado, se señala que las funciones del texto literario, para Barthes, Deleuze y Guattari, son de desplazamientos que huyen de las fuerzas coercitivas de la lengua – el fascismo – y posibilitan la duda sobre sus sentidos, la contradicción y la dinamicidad del texto, características que lo constituye como literatura menor.
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Stolen Time
More than a century ago, Friedrich Nietzsche warned that calm and contemplation were going out of fashion, soon to be replaced by wide-spread haste and mindlessness. Confirming the diagnosis sixty years later, Adorno observed that metropolitan modernity had given rise to a nervousness and discontinuity so profound that reflection could only occur in its shadow; consequently, intellectual labor tends always to appear “abgestohlen” [stolen] from some other (pre)occupation. Proceeding from a study of Franz Kafka – whose rich creative and intellectual work took place almost exclusively on time borrowed from other tasks and obligations – this paper argues that such “stolen” moments are perhaps more fecund than we might at first imagine.
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