Here, the author writes with clarity, perception, and humor about a subject of importance to many Americans-reconciling their contemporary identity with a heritage from another country.

Preface
A Note on Hungarian Names
Playtime: Adult Language Learning, Edmund Wilson, and Me
"What the Moment Told Me": The Photographs of Andre Kertesz
The Archives of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Without Words: Hungarians in North American Fiction
The Empty Box: Hollywood Ethnicity and Joe Eszterhas
A Short Dictionary of Hungarian Stereotypes and Kitsch
Visiting Pannonia
Toward a Course on Central European Literature in Translation
The Poet as Translator: Margaret Avison's "Hungarian Snap"
Introducing Peter Esterhazy
"What Comes After": Hungarian Voices, Summer 1993
The Third Generation and the "Problem" of Ethnicty
Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Index