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Identity Construction in Philip Roth´s American Trilogy: Self-Invention and Historical Determinism

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Publication: Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Philologia, 8, p. 209
p-ISSN:1582-9960
Publisher:Universitatea Petru Maior
Place:Târgu Mureș
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Abstract:
  • In the contexts of the Zuckerman series of novels, the American trilogy represents a new phase for the identity construction of the writer Nathan Zuckerman: he appears restricted in action and rather dimmed in personality and he gives up his pervasive self-questioning, on the other hand, he becomes aware of the interplay between history and identity. Foregrounding the lives of three remarkable men, the trilogy demonstrates that free invention of personal identity, in a society advertised as having the cult of individualism, of change and of personal control over environment, is after all prevented by the very ideological and historical circumstances that prompt it in the first place.
  • În contextul seriei de romane a lui Zuckerman, trilogia americană reprezintă o nouă fază pentru construirea identităţii scriitorului Nathan Zuckerman: el apare limitat la acţiuni şi mai degrabă vag ca personalitate şi renunţă la întrebările asupra sa, pe de altă parte devine conştient de interacţiunea între istorie şi identitate. Având la bază vieţile a trei oameni remarcabili, trilogia demonstrează că invenţia liberă a identităţii personale, într-o societate având cultul individualismului, a schimbării şi a controlului personal asupra mediului, este, la urma urmei împiedicată de circumstanţele ideologice şi istorice care o pun pe prim plan.
Key words:
  • identity, self-invention, history, individualism, ideology
  • identitate, inventare de sine, istorie, individualism, ideologie
Language: English
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