THE MALE GENDER SCRIPT AS SELF-REPRESENTATION IN THE SÁNDOR VAY Ś POETRY

• Authors: Csehy Zoltán
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper the author has analysed the artistic manifestations of the ego-forming strategies of Sándor/Sarolta Vay (1859–1918), guided by the patterns of norm-following and norm-rejecting gender performativity and also by stepping outside of these patterns. Sándor Vay was born as a woman but lived as a man, constructing his writer ego as a male author as well. This construction could be one form of queer masculinity based on corporeality. The first part of this paper demonstrates Vay’s career; the second analyses Vay’s poems published under a female name and those published later under a male name, investigating the strategies of textual creation of sexuality and gender.

Keywords

EN

GENDERSCRIPT; QUEER; FEMALE; MALE; TRANSGENDER; HUNGARIAN POETRY; VAY SÁNDOR

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 53 – 61

Contributors

author

Csehy Zoltán

• Department of Hungarian Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava, Gondova 2, 81499 Bratislava, Slovak Republic