Postmodern Readings of the Relationship Between Space and Identity
Postmodern Readings of the Relationship Between Space and Identity

Summary/Abstract: Our study investigates the possible ways of discussing the functions of the identity in fictional work. As point of departure we have chosen the novel Jacob se hotărăște să iubească (Jacob beschließt zu lieben, C.H. Beck, 2011) by Cătălin Dorian Florescu. Identity is multilayered, having being formed and transformed continuously in relation to the ways we are represented or addressed in the cultural systems, as Stuart Hall (1992, 1997) stressed out. The approach is heavily influenced by postcolonial and postmodern sociological theories of identity, that are referring to identity in the general framework of terms as society,power, self and imagined communities. Identity and space are intertwined, hence they are complex phenomena, that can more adequately be examined from the vantage point of postmodernism.

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