Contemporary Women's Perspectives - The Last Decade and a Half of Hungarian Women's Literature (2008-2023)

Abstract

Today, almost thirty years after the concept of feminist literary criticism was first introduced in Hungary, women's literature is still a controversial and cautiously treated concept. Zoltán Németh in 2012 writes about the history of the development of the new canon of women's literature, and its search for a place. Although more and more acknowledged women writers are being recognised by contemporary critics, we seem to see only traces of this in the? canon. In this article I will try to explore the reasons for this dichotomy through a two-pronged approach to women's literature: one conceptual and the other sociological. The second part of my research includes an examination of the Hungarian online journal, Litera's Critics' Review (2008-2023). Here I have examined the functioning of critical attention as a component of the visibility of women authors, and the genre and thematic contexts of the texts reviewed.