| Title: | Narrative identity, individual and community |
| Author: | Lorena-Valeria Stuparu |
| Publication: | The Proceedings of the International Conference Globalization, Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity. Section: Language and Discourse, 1, p. 490-498 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-93691-3-5 |
| Editors: | Iulian Boldea |
| Publisher: | Arhipelag XXI Press |
| Place: | Tîrgu-Mureş |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | From a phenomenological and hermeneutical point of view, individual identity can be defined, as did Paul Ricoeur, as constructed narrative identity of the ”capable man” which is able to say, to do, to tell and to recount himself: to say sometimes involves telling stories or recounting about what you did, and both such manifestations are forms of ”action” through which the self-consciousness is shared to others. Thus, this ”selfconstruction” consisting either in self recognition in national and universal pre-existing models or in the cultivation and development of autobiographical characteristics to which we can not however give an absolute sense, can not ignore the results of interaction with others, with one community or another, in multiple relations. In this context, for example, we could formulate the following questions: national identity of an individual (structured at the beginning by the time and place when and where he was born) or of a state (here, the Romanian state structured by major national and international events starting with the modern history of Romania) might be affected during a geopolitical game that changes its rules, at least the last two centuries, within an interval of about fifty years? If the notion of national identity has a political dimension and it is able to be applied both to individuals (in terms of civic, if not civil) and to community – the transnational identity, such as, for example, European identity is an individual identity or a collective one? Is the ”global” identity (i.e. the European identity) a substantial one, or it remains a simply one of postmodern narratives? These are some current questions on personal, national and global sizes of identity that my paper aims to examine. |
| Key words: | identity, narrative, selfconstruction, national, global |
| Language: | English |
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