AFTER BABEL: IDENTITIES IN SEARCH OF NAME

• Authors: Spiridon Monica
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with several aspects of creation and construction of identities in their discursive and historical versions. It looks over narrative tools, which allow ascending and descending symbolic projections, the basic correlation between stimulation and stored information, relations between self-identification and stereotype representation of the other and transposition of inside and outside literary projections. The analysis relates to two contemporary novels that question identification logic: 'Birds without Wings' by British novelist Luis de Bernieres and 'Middlesex' by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides that follow up formation of Turkish and Greek identity. The 20th century brought disintegration of empires, change in national stereotypes and emblems. We can examine this process in literary works in term of narrations or narrative voices. The both novels follow the process from the inside and 'innocent' perspective of victims, who left written and verbal records.

Keywords

EN

IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; LITERARY ANALYSIS; NARRATIVE DISCOURSE; NARRATIVE VOICE; NATIONAL IDENTITIES; STEREOTYPE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 1(18)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 43-49
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Spiridon Monica

• Monica Spiridon, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, Edgar Quinet no 5-7, sector 1, Bucharest, Romania

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA072818