Autonarracja jako strategia negocjowania tożsamości w tekstach polskich migrantów przebywających w Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii po roku 2004
Self-Narration as a Strategy of Negotiating Identity in the Texts of Polish Migrants Residing in the UK and Ireland After 2004
Author(s): Joanna ŚlósarskaSubject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Customs / Folklore, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Recent History (1900 till today), Polish Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Social psychology and group interaction, Economic development, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Social Norms / Social Control, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: migration; self-narration; biographical trajectory; individual identity
Summary/Abstract: The article explores the shaping of narrators’ polyphonic identities in texts produced by Polish migrants temporarily residing in the UK and Ireland. Examining dozens of works produced between 2004 and 2015, Ślósarska tackles identity in relation to the fundamental determinants of self-narrative strategies. Her methodology is rooted in symbolic interactionism, standard patterns of biographies, and self-narration as a way of understanding and interpreting the world. Her conclusions focus on the function of self-narration in reconstructing individual and ethnic identities by migrants looking for new patterns of adaptation in unstable existential situations; the axiologization of the new experiences is discussed in relation to ethnic cultural memory and to the social and family identity roles developed earlier in life.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 273-287
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish
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