Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2000. [Vol. 6.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 26)

Book reviews - László Dányi: The First Hit for "Multicultural Hemingway Hungary ": Lehel Vadon. Ed. Multicultural Challenge in American Culture—Hemingway Centennial

of allusive terms that could be explored in depth, but within the confines of the essay they are only anticipated. The analysis of works by Robert Kroetsch, Ruby Wiebe, Jack Hodgins and Bowering expands on such contextual and literary theoretical notions as the mythic connotations of the West, intertextuality, historiographic metafiction and discourse analysis. She concludes that the iconoclastic distortions imposed on the original narratives may destabilize the central focus of the narratives aiming at the single truth. Centralizing and decentralizing themes and the metaphors of centripetality and centrifugality are the recurring concerns of three of the essays in the volume. Éva Miklódy defines the multiform relationship of the marginal black writing with the central and dominant Anglo-Saxon writing. In the second essay Ágnes Surányi provides us with strategies to approach the representation of all-black communities in Toni Morrison's works. Finally, András Tarnóc's essay encapsulates four points of the convergence of parallel cultures: evolutionary process, mythmaking patterns, therapeutic selfjustification and the prevalence of centripetality over centrifugality. Unlike the two previous essayists, Tarnóc extends the scope of his observation by examining patterns of minority aesthetics in both African-American and Chicano cultures. The genre spectrum of the volume is widened by Klára Szabó's essay on two approaches to American cultural diversity in one-act plays. Horovitz's and Shange's plays offer two different perspectives on representing otherness. The former remains an outsider whereas the latter's focus resides in the inner core. Beside Vadon's aforementioned bibliography, Donald E. Morse's essay sets the tone for the second part which is illustrated with portraits of Hemingway and with photos at Key West, where 'Papa' lived. Morse reveals the Hemingway hoax which is the result of creating multiple, parallel universes and intermingling three characters, who are guises of Hemingway figures. The analysis of the recuperated Hemingway characters in the Möibus strip of Joe Haldeman's The Hemingway Hoax (1990) presents incidents in Hemingway's life and discusses different opinions by Hemingway biographers. The perspective of intertextuality is a critical perspective which sheds new light on texts, and enables the critic to observe channels 207