Resistance and Compliance in Katalin Szlukovényi's Volume of Poetry The Kitchen of Your Dreams

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Published: Sep 2, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14232/tntef.2022.1.1-19

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Judit Friedrich
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5003-0302

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The ironic possibilities of compliance with, and resistance to, social and gender roles appear already on the cover of Katalin Szlukovényi’s 2020 volume of poetry, Álomkonyha [The Kitchen of Your Dreams]. This essay focuses on how the poems demonstrate a practice of cultivating intertwining life models, instead of emphasizing the cognitive dissonance resulting from the competition or giving in to the pressure to make a choice. Szlukovényi’s economically structured poems are examples of intersectional identity, where every element matters: literary allusions, images, enjambment, and ironic closure. Attention itself is what is offered as a solution to the dilemma of whether to resist or comply.

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Friedrich, Judit. 2022. “Resistance and Compliance in Katalin Szlukovényi’s Volume of Poetry The Kitchen of Your Dreams”. Interdisciplinary EJournal of Gender Studies 12 (1):1-19. https://doi.org/10.14232/tntef.2022.1.1-19.
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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2022): Possibilities of Resistance and Cooperation
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Judit Friedrich, Independent Scholar

Friedrich, Judit C. Sc., literary historian, independent scholar. Her work focuses on contemporary fiction, postmodernist fiction, cultural memory and gender studies. Earlier, during her decades as an associate professor, she offered courses on English fiction, literary theory, gender studies and multimedial forms of literature and literary adaptations. As an academic advisor she helped young scholars establish their careers. Founder and series editor (2010-2020) of ELTE Papers in English Studies, with student volumes Good To Be 56: Writings in Honour of Tibor Fischer’s Birthdays WEBPAGE (2014); Stunned into Uncertainty: Essays on Julian Barnes’s Fiction WEBPAGE (2014); and Turning the Page: Gendered Identities in Contemporary Literary and Visual Cultures WEBPAGE (2018).