The article presents an analysis of post-migrant social identities of multicultural postmodern societies, and especially the identity of a writer. Various recent concepts related to creation of post-migrant identities are illustrated by examples of Polish intellectuals living abroad, especially Czeslaw Milosz. Descriptions of consecutive stages of exile also shed some new light on the situation of Milosz as a poet who transformed his personal, Polish experiences into poetry appealing to readers around the world.
The postmodern humans, in their narcissistic and consumer approaches to life, adore the human body. Nevertheless, in contemporary world the cult of a body has been replaced by body show. The ideals of good life disappeared, it is the show that counts. The healthy or beautiful bodies are no more important. What counts is presenting them as such. The values, under the pressure of the consumer society, narcissism and show are decaying. As a consequence, postmodern culture comes to an end. Pluralism of values as the ideal of postmodern culture disintegrated, being replaced by the play of pleasures.
Home connotes a living space that marks a place. The construction of 'home' involves not only a spatial arrangement, but also a transformation of the space into a meaningful place where the occupant inscribes his or her values. Subsequently, it becomes a cultural index. It cannot be encapsulated solely by physical architecture. Its formation indexes the relationship between the occupant and home as a concept or as a physical presence of spatial arrangement, a place where people can locate their identities. The article aims at looking into the (re)organization of spaces and the conditions of the prescription of boundaries in contemporary fiction and films to elaborate the relationship between the idea of home and the sense of belonging generated.
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