Exploring Identity in Literature and Life Stories
The Elusive Self
1st Edition
Published on 12. July 2019
334 pages
978-1-5275-3680-7 (ISBN)
Description
Today, globalization, migration and political polarization complicate the individual's search for a cohesive identity, making identity formation and transformation key issues in everyday life. This collection of essays highlights a number of the dimensions of identity, including cultural hybridity, religion, ethnicity, profession, gender, sexuality, and childhood, and explores how they are thematized in different narratives. The stories discussed are set in Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, France, Germany, Great Britain, Haiti, India, Israel, Japan, Polynesia, Norway, Romania, Spain and South Africa, emphasizing today's international focus on identity. The majority of the contributions here focus on literary texts, while others investigate identity formations in interviews, language corpora, student reading logs, film, theatre and pathographies.
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Guri Barstad | Karen P. Knutsen | Elin Nesje Vestli
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The Elusive Self
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Identity and Cultural Hybridity
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Identity and Religion
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Identity, Nationality and Language
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Identity, Profession and Gender
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Identity and Illness
- Chapter Sixteen
- Identity and Childhood
- Chapter Seventeen
- Chapter Eighteen
- Contributors
