Hungarian Rhapsodies : Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Culture

Name: Hungarian Rhapsodies : Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Culture
Brand: University of Washington Press

University of Washington Press

Hungarian RhapsodiesEssays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Culture\nAuthor(s): Richard Teleky\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295976068, 978-0295976068\nSynopsis\nLike the renowned American writer Edmund Wilson, who began to learn Hungarian at the age of 65, Richard Teleky started his study of that difficult language as an adult. Unlike Wilson, he is a third-generation Hungarian American with a strong desire to understand how his ethnic background has affected the course of his life. \""Exploring my ethnicity,\"" he writes, \""became a way of exploring the arbitrary nature of my own life. It was not so much a search for roots as for a way of understanding rootlessness - how I stacked up against another way of being.\"" He writes with clarity, perception, and humor about a subject of importance to many Americans - reconciling their contemporary identity with a heritage from another country.\n\n.