Disintegration Of Identity Research Articles

Spiritual orientation of the psychological rehabilitation of combatants

The paper examines the impact of combat stress on human personality, with a particular focus on identity disintegration. This is considered to be the most significant impact of combat stress, accompanied by the loss of values that generally make up a framework for assessing and interpreting current events. The conventional psychological treatments for personality reconstruction, which appeal to cognitive, emotional, motivational and volitional processes that make up the structure of the psyche, are found to be ineffective in cases where stress exceeds the average psychological resources of a person. Coping with extreme impacts assumes going beyond the familiar life experience accompanied by the reference to the spiritual level resources, among which religiosity is traditional for the mentality. This paper reviews the relationship between religion and psychotherapy, with a focus on the psychotherapeutic factors of religion aimed at combatants’ identity reconstruction.

Capturing reality: Navigating photographic realism in Mohsin Hamid’s <i>Exit West (2017)</i>

This paper aimed to explore the complexities that invoked colonial history and its connection to the contemporary contexts marked by multiculturalism, the war on terror, identity disintegration, displacement, and immigration. It investigated the intricate interplay between photographic realism and contemporary themes within Mohsin Hamid’s novel “Exit West.” The study delved into the meticulous portrayal of migration, geopolitical landscapes, counterterrorism measures, and the influence of digital technology within the narrative. By drawing parallels between Hamid’s prose and photographic realism, the analysis focused on the nuanced exploration of displacement and conflict. The examination of magical doors as a literary device akin to photographic realism revealed their role in capturing the instability of geopolitical structures and disrupting conventional borders. Photographic realism was adopted as a literary theoretical framework. This research contributed to a deeper understanding of how Hamid’s novel served as a critical commentary on the multifaceted challenges within the global human experience, emphasizing the relevance of photographic realism in contemporary literary analysis. After a thematic analysis of the primary text, it was concluded that the novel was a critical portrayal of migrant labor as a commodity, cosmopolitanism, contemporary sociocultural and geopolitical dilemmas, the exploitative nature of the state’s projects, and interracial integration.

Navigating Discontent: Postmodern Interpretations of Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent

Navigating Discontent: Postmodern Interpretations of Steinbeck's 'The Winter of Our Discontent'“ presents a comprehensive examination of John Steinbeck's classic novel through the lens of postmodern theory. This paper delves into the multifaceted layers of discontent depicted in the novel and explores how postmodern perspectives shed new light on its themes, characters, and narrative structure. This study examines the fluidity of meaning and the disintegration of identity within the text, drawing on many postmodern frameworks, including deconstruction, poststructuralism, and metafiction. It investigates how Steinbeck's portrayal of disillusionment, moral decay, and economic struggles resonates with postmodern critiques of societal constructs and power dynamics. Furthermore, this paper examines the role of language, narrative techniques, and intertextuality in shaping the reader's experience of discontent in the novel. By engaging with postmodern concepts of simulation, hyperreality, and the absence of stable truths, it explores the ways in which Steinbeck challenges traditional modes of storytelling and invites readers to navigate through a complex landscape of uncertainty and ambiguity. Through this postmodern interpretation, “Navigating Discontent” seeks to illuminate the enduring relevance of Steinbeck's work in contemporary discourse and invites readers to reconsider the novel's themes in the context of postmodern thought.

Resistance. On the Sidelines of Inga Iwasiów’s Chronicle of Resistance and Love and Wioletta Grzegorzewska’s Wolf River

The article analyzes Inga Iwasiów’s Chronicles of Resistance and Love and Wioletta Grzegorzewska’sWolf River through the prism of polyphony, pointing to the two writers’ strategies of breakingtaboo topics and interrogating the habits of reading. Through images of chaos, both Iwasiów andGrzegorzewska show the disintegration of identity and the consequences of the loss of stability.By addressing diffi cult topics (such as among others: the loss of a loved one, widespread hatred,chauvinism, COVID-19 pandemic, toxic marriage, domestic violence or hardships of emigration)they present successful efforts to overcome a crisis and to build one’s life anew.

Investigating the Effective Factors in the Formation of Deliberate Self-harm in Adolescence: Mental Health Professionals’ Viewpoints

Objective: This study aims to investigate the issues related to the formation and persistence of deliberate self-harm behavior in adolescents from Iranian mental health professionals’ viewpoints. Methods: The present qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to record the experiences of 9 mental health professionals with work experience in deliberate self-harm behavior in adolescence. The participants were selected via the purposive sampling method. The Sterling content analysis method was used to analyze the transcription of the interviews. Results: The semantic units of the interview were classified into 32 initial codes. The extracted sub-themes were as follows: A rejection of new identities, repression, the disintegration of social identity, materialism, economic poverty, unresolved parental conflicts, the lack of authority, the ambivalency between boundaries and freedom, shame, and guilt, blame, fear of harm, liberation, self-care, escape mechanism, and replacement, affect regulation, coping with self-disintegration and self-esteem, relationship conflicts with adults and peers, identity creation, identity disorder, boundless mental structure, lack of self-confidence, and distorted self-perception. The following four themes were categorized as subcategories of transformational injuries: Traumatic society, vulnerable family, interpersonal impact, and interpersonal effectiveness. Conclusion: Mental health specialists considered deliberate self-harm traumatic; however, they deem it for eliminating negative emotions and controlling the internal and external world of adolescents. Furthermore, they consider this behavior a reaction to cultural conflicts, cultural materialism, and the disintegration of identity and role during adolescence in families not being capable to facilitate low-risk transformation for adolescents because of economic and psychological factors.

Crusade for Identity: An Exploration of Space Among Gender, Diversity and Inequality in Anna-Marie McLemore’s When the Moon Was Ours and Blanca and Roja

The purpose of the research is to comprehend the highly polymorphic notion of identity in the works of Anna Marie McLemore, a Mexican American writer. A detailed inspection of his works indicates that the concept of ‘identity disintegration’ is a concern in virtually all of them. This research aims to demonstrate identity development as a process rather than a distinct result of the struggle. Identity development, as an ever-changing process, provides us with new avenues for investigating subjectivity. Using a close reading of the selected texts, this research demonstrates that identity disintegration is an ongoing process that can create new understandings and possibilities. Through these processes and subsequent learning to survive in postmodern society, individuals can create their subjective identities. This article uses When the Moon Was Ours and Blanca and Roja to relate young adult literature to magical realist canonical works, notably analysing how the texts use magical realism to examine trans bodies. The genre, magical realism is typically characterized by fluidity and intangibility, which explores gender and sexuality in the select texts, helping readers grapple with issues of identity and representation. Similarly, McLemore’s use of Latinx traditions allows young readers to engage in intersectional debates about magical realism, trans bodies and Latinx culture. Through the retelling, McLemore can present nuanced arguments about trans bodies and the Latinx culture that often rejects them which in turn inspires the young readers to explore with an open mind.

Psalm 88 within its Contexts (Historical, Literary, Canonical, Modern, and Psychological): Do they help with Interpretation?

Psalm 88, considered ‘the darkest psalm’, is often avoided by ‘the average reader of Scripture’ and considered ‘outside of normative theology’ by many scholars. The big problem is that the lamenter accuses God of breaking the covenant, and God does not answer the lamenter. The psalm ends without resolution. Moreover, the complainant claims to be innocent, thereby raising the issue of a person suffering unjustly (before an all-powerful, loving God). Biblical texts like this force us to look wider and deeper, to gain an understanding of the text’s message and its role within the canon. In this paper, the wider view is considered by studying the psalm within five contexts – historical, literary, canonical, within the modern world, and in the light of a psychological theory. The first has little to offer (of certainty) but the literary view highlights key themes. The canonical view shows how it critiques Ps 1, gives a climax to Book III (with Ps 89) and prepares for Book IV, and connects with Job and Jesus. The modern context brings new insights: the reality of the Holocaust has prompted deep searching and an adjustment of theological thinking by several scholars. And the psychological perspective (from the fact that the psalmist does not experience the identity disintegration common in such situations) highlights the crux of the psalm – his covenant relationship with YHWH as the most important, and only, element that holds in such extreme times. In essence, the psalm (in context) shows us that innocent people suffer, but God is not unjust. However, sufferers should protest and their pain should be acknowledged as truth. Moreover, meaning should not be squeezed out of suffering, for humanity’s inability to comprehend fully is a reality. Nevertheless, the psalm gives space and permission for sufferers to safely protest with a fellow-sufferer.

Раздвоение личности с позиций психологии и лингвистики

The article analyzes cases of multiple personality disorder (dissociative identity disorder) and their reflection in fiction. The purpose of the article is to classify various situations and identify the causes and prerequisites for this phenomenon. The process of splitting consciousness is accompanied by certain changes in the individual’s speech. This concerns the choice of words and grammatical forms (especially forms of the person’s category). The collected material (texts of novellas, short stories, poems, and screenplays) gives grounds for some conclusions. The main prerequisites for dissociative identity disorder are the versatility of the personality, the ability to look at it “from the inside” and “from the outside,” as well as the individual’s tendency to constantly evaluate his thoughts and actions. Past violence, severe stress, internal discomfort, etc. can act as a cause (“triggering mechanism”) of the phenomenon under study. The author shows cases of endoscopic and exoscopic disintegration of identity using literary facts. In the latter case, there is a connection with the Freudian concept of the “Ideal I”, which includes an observer. The topic of doubles, which is immensely popular in art, and the relationship between the author of a literary work and his pseudonym are also touched upon.

Identity Struggles of Adult Returners

This article addresses a perceived gap in higher education literature: there is very little writing that successfully combines the issues of individual learners who dropped out and then returned to higher education – the adult returners. To address this problem, the article draws upon data from the qualitative part of a larger research project that deals with non-traditional students in the Czech Republic. This article analyzes data from eight subjects with drop-out experience chosen from the initial corpus of thirty non-traditional students. The results indicate that adult learners have to deal with three central identities and with potential identity struggles as they interact: student identity, work identity, and familial identity. The final result of the interaction between these identities can be either the integration or the disintegration of identities, whereby one of the possible consequences of identity disintegration is to drop out from higher education.

Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions by Annabel L. Kim

Reviewed by: Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions by Annabel L. Kim Raquelle K. Bostow (bio) Annabel L. Kim. Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions. The Ohio State UP, 2018. 263 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8142-1384-1. Annabel Kim’s book Unbecoming Language breathes new life into French feminist theory and fiction. While labeling the book as “theory” is a misnomer, Kim’s argument that the writers and novels studied present a poetics of “unbecoming” not only re-endows literary narrative with the stimulating power to generate theoretical ideas, but also allows literature to energize French feminism and theory with the politicized charge of “anti-difference,” long neglected in American studies of these traditions and movements. Kim defines “anti-difference French feminism” as a rejection of the idea of sexual difference as essential and argues instead that such difference is constructed (2). While some strands of differentialist French feminism also argue that difference is constructed, Kim’s anti-difference French feminism imagines the possibility of leaving the idea of “difference” behind altogether. In Unbecoming Language, Kim unveils anti-differentialist thought that presents subjectivity without subjecthood, what Kim calls unbecoming, by reading together for the first time the works of Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig, and Anne Garréta. Collectively, Kim claims that their works “hollow out difference and rework our subjectivity” by resisting the literary fabrication of identity (4). This process of unbecoming is stimulated by these authors’ common belief in “language’s potential to transform a reality marked by compulsory identification and seemingly inescapable difference” (84). Kim establishes an anti-differentialist feminist poetics through this thorough study and places it firmly on par with differentialist French feminism. Unbecoming Language makes a valuable contribution to the field of French Studies, and to its branches of French feminisms and contemporary French fiction, but also to the study of contemporary literature more broadly. The book’s introduction provides a presentation of the main argument as well as a helpful biography of each writer studied before moving on to definitions of terms and methodology. Working with the claim that difference is built on sameness––that is, that identity categories require collectives of “sameness” that bind individuals within an identity category––Kim argues that Sarraute, Wittig, and Garréta instead forego the idea of difference, which, the author powerfully asserts, has practical applications. In the introduction and elsewhere, Kim interrogates the ways in which engaging with “unbecoming language” might influence the way we unknow ourselves and thus others. This becomes an underlying goal of the book: to propose a radical disarmament that makes “difference” easier to bear, or at the very least, to remember that our world based on difference is a fictive fabrication. The project is admittedly utopian (34), but refreshing and welcomed. The introduction presents ample evidence to demonstrate the relationship between these three authors and the book’s organization and methodology are major strengths. Unbecoming Language is organized into four chapters: the first three examine each writer’s corpus independently through the lens of “unbecoming language,” [End Page 996] while tending to their overlaps, and the fourth constructs a feminist poetics inspired by the combined study of Sarraute, Wittig, and Garréta. Another strength in Kim’s approach is the choice to read these authors outside of a theoretical framework. While the reader may expect to engage with “French theory” or “queer theory” in a book that argues for the disintegration of identity, Kim’s work insists rather on these novels’ capacity to fashion theory on their own, thereby resisting the division between “narrativity” (or literature) and “theory.” This approach seems appropriate given that reading these authors through a pre-existing theoretical framework would not correspond with the book’s project to shed identity labels, as Kim explains. Instead, these authors generate a new relationship with language that allows for a “subjectivity without subjecthood,” or “a non-delineated subjectivity” (32) . . . a framework that could very well become a “theory” itself. In Chapter 1, “Sarraute’s Indeterminacy,” Kim rejects the traditional reading that categorizes Sarraute as a New Novelist or as a woman writer. Instead, Kim asks about the possibilities that arise when Sarraute is read alongside Wittig and Garr...

Reflective function and identity in adolescents with clinical and nonclinical symptoms.

Reflective function is developed in the context of secure attachment and corresponds to the ability to understand one's mental states and those of others. Thus, identity develops, which relates to the experience of self as unique, continuous and coherent. To identify reflective function and identity features in adolescents with clinical and nonclinical symptoms of mental health problems. Participants were 188 Brazilian high school students aged 14-17 years: 30.3% with clinical symptoms and 69.9% with nonclinical symptoms. Adolescents with clinical symptoms showed lower levels of reflective function and greater disintegration of identity. Adolescence is a vulnerable time for mental health problems associated with reflective function and identity. Early identification of symptoms is a matter that needs attention to prevent future consequences.

Education of foreign children – integration or disintegration of identity

Abstract The paper points to new difficulties and new expectations towards the Polish school. The presence of a greater number of immigrant students results in the school and teachers having to face new challenges. However, one often forgets that pupils too are put in a new school and in a new cultural situation. On top of that, pupils in a class that welcome new classmates should be prepared for the meeting with a different culture or tradition in order to understand their new friends better. One also needs to think how to support the child’s parents for whom it is also a very difficult time. Support from the school, teachers and other parents is very important. It will enable the child to step into new duties more quickly and it will allow the parents to understand requirements and expectations.

Development and Validation of the Traumatized Identity Questionnaire (TIQ)

본 연구는 외상 후 정체성 변화 양상을 구체적으로 개념화하였고, 연구 1에서 310명과 연구 2에서 234명의 외상 경험이 있는 사람들의 참여로 외상 후 정체성 변화를 측정하는 자기보고형 도구를 개발, 타당화하였다. 요인 분석 결과, 외상 후 정체성 변화 척도는 정체성 과잉조절, 정체성 통합결여, 정체성 혼란, 부정적 정체성, 그리고 정체성 기능문제의 요인으로 구성되었다. 외상 후 정체성 변화의 심각도는 단일 외상에 비하여 복합 외상을 경험한 사람들에게서, 또한 외상 후 스트레스 증상 심각도가 높은 집단에서 보다 높았다. 외상 후 정체성 변화 척도의 신뢰도와 타당도는 양호한 수준으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 본 연구의 한계점과 추후 과제, 그리고 임상 활용의 의미에 대해 논하였다.

Investigating the effect of processing parameters on pharmaceutical tablet disintegration using a real-time particle imaging approach

Tablet disintegration is a fundamental parameter that is tested in vitro before a product is released to the market, to give confidence that the tablet will break up in vivo and that active drug will be available for absorption. Variations in tablet properties cause variation in disintegration behaviour. While the standardised pharmacopeial disintegration test can show differences in the speed of disintegration of different tablets, it does not give any mechanistic information about the underlying cause of the difference. With quantifiable disintegration data, and consequently an improved understanding into tablet disintegration, a more knowledge-based approach could be applied to the research and development of future tablet formulations.The aim of the present research was to introduce an alternative method which will enable a better understanding of tablet disintegration using a particle imaging approach. A purpose-built flow cell was employed capable of online observation of tablet disintegration, which can provide information about the changing tablet dimensions and the particles released with time. This additional information can improve the understanding of how different materials and process parameters affect tablet disintegration. Standard USP analysis was also carried out to evaluate and determine whether the flow cell method can suitably differentiate the disintegration behaviour of tablets produced using different processing parameters.Placebo tablets were produced with varying ratios of insoluble and soluble filler (mannitol and MCC, respectively) so that the effect of variation in the formulation can be investigated. To determine the effect of the stress applied during granulation and tableting on tablet disintegration behaviour, analysis was carried out on tablets produced using granular material compressed at 20 or 50bar, where a tableting load of either 15 or 25kN was used. By doing this the tablet disintegration was examined in terms of the tablet porosity by monitoring the tablet area and particle release. It was found that when 20 and 50bar roller compaction pressure was used the USP analysis showed almost identical disintegration times for the consequent tablets. With the flow cell method a greater tablet swelling was observed for the lower pressure followed by steady tablet erosion. Additionally, more particles were released during disintegration due to the smaller granule size distribution within the tablet. When a higher tableting pressure was applied the tablet exhibited a delay in the time taken to reach the maximum swelling area, and slower tablet erosion and particle release were also observed, largely due to the tablet being much denser causing slower water uptake. This was in agreement with the USP analysis data. Overall it was confirmed by using both the standard USP analysis and flow cell method that the tablet porosity affects the tablet disintegration, whereby a more porous tablet disintegrates more slowly. But a more in-depth understanding was obtained using the flow cell method as it was determined that tablets will swell to varying degrees and release particles at different rates depending on the roller compaction and tableting pressure used.

Mistr Jan Hus v životě a reflexi Církve československé husitské

The paper attempts to present the role of Jan Hus and of the movement in the Czechoslovak Church (CSC), known as the Czechoslovak Church (CSHC) as of 1971. It notes that after the creation of CSC in 1920 a rather romantic reminiscence of Jan Hus prevailed in the church nourished by Masaryk's ideal of humanity, which gave rise to a broad symbolic, liturgical, artistic and partly ideological formation. It describes the disintegration of identity in the CSC in the totalitarian crises of the Czechoslovak state in the period of Nazism and Communism, and how CSC helped overcome these crises by symbols and ideas of the tradition, and how the idea of the extension of the name of CSC through the term Hussite was born at the end of the 1960s. It was adopted by the Church during the sixth Assembly of CSC in 1971. This decision had a remarkable effect on the quality and professionalism of the study of Hus' works and other texts coming from the tradition.

The Interaction with Alterity in Paul Bowles's “A Distant Episode”

ABSTRACT “A Distant Episode” expresses some fundamental aspects of Bowles's fiction, particularly the futility of racial interaction and Western vanity in its dialogue with the “other.” In this story, Bowles exposes the tragic effects of confrontation with alterity and the ensuing disintegration of identity. In discussing “A Distant Episode,” this article highlights Western presumption in its relationship with the “other,” who hides his identity and refuses to be assimilated. The presence of stereotypes from colonialist discourse that interfere with cultural communication and the ineffectiveness of dialogue between races are also discussed.

Changes in Parental Self-Identity Following the Death of a Child to Cancer

This study explored parental self-identity at 6, 12, and 18 months following the death of a child to cancer. Semi-structured interviews were analyzed using qualitative methodology. Two patterns of parental self-identity emerged: identity reintegration, characterized by 6 associated themes (e.g., positive reframing, focusing on surviving children); and identity disintegration, characterized by 7 associated themes (e.g., negative perceptions of social support, self-destructive thoughts and behaviors). Patterns were stable from 6 to 12 months, but a shift towards identity disintegration was observed at 18 months. These findings suggest a need to support bereaved parents’ well-being beyond the first year post-death.

Significant Relationship in Patrick White’s The Aunt’s Story

The Aunt’s Story is perhaps Patrick White’s most famous and detailed work of the disintegration of identity. It is about freedom. The whole plot deals with Theodora Goodman’s struggle for a free world in which she can attain truth. The Aunt’s Story is primarily concerned with Theodora’s attempt to attain some sort of epiphany, particularly when she yields to moments of close relationships with other characters and the landscape. However, this communion is thwarted on the grounds that it threats her spiritual world. This work explains Theodora’s spiritual odyssey by highlighting her childhood recollections and her most important relationships with the other characters such as Frank, Clarkson, and Moraitis. It will explain Patrick White’s rationale behind emphasising spirituality and ignoring the physical world. In the end, it will put White’s philosophical dichotomy of spiritual development and physical nature under scrutiny in the light of Western Philosophy.

Maryse Condé and West Indian Complexity: The Writing of Monstrosity, Postcolonial Comparativism, and Cannibalistic Intertexualities

Maryse Condé and West Indian Complexity:The Writing of Monstrosity, Postcolonial Comparativism, and Cannibalistic Intertexualities Cilas Kemedjio Translated by Ruthmarie H. Mitsch Sign of Dissent: Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism By Dawn Fulton Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2008. viii + 185185. ISBN: 9780813927152 paper. Passes et impasses dans le comparatisme postcolonial caribbéen: Cinq traverses By Kathleen Gyssels Paris: Honoré Champion, 2010. 432432 pp. ISBN: 9782745319883 cloth. Maryse Condé, mythe, parabole et complexité By Deborah Hess Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011. 197197 pp. ISBN: 9782296553576 paper. Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers By Anne M. FranÇois Lanham: Lexington Books, 2011. xxxiii + 111111 pp. ISBN: 9780739148266 cloth. Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation By Nicole Simek New York: Rodopi, 2008. 235 pp. ISBN: 9789042023277 paper. The work of Maryse Condé is situated at the confluence of the principal preoccupations of West Indian and diasporan postcolonial studies, with her writing positioned as the locus of intertextual encounters where the modality of transgression presides over the reestablishment of a new diasporan imaginary. In Sign of Dissent: Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism, Dawn Fulton sees in her work the illustration of a transnational writing in conversation with several cultural and linguistic registers. Gregson Davis situated Aimé Césaire at the intersection of Western modernity and the black renaissance and his work comes as the erudite reading of one who is versed in classical letters and sheds light on the understanding of Césaire’s writing from new, heretofore unexplored perspectives. Following in the footsteps of Davis’s study, Fulton reinstates the postcolonial text as a place of encounters and the reinvention of literary traditions and several disciplines, from postcolonial translation studies to Anglo-American critical theory as well as postcolonial theory and Antillean francophone literature. Translation thus offers a greater visibility for this francophone writing that drinks from the well of the Anglo-American intertext (Fulton 146). In order to grasp the full dimension of Condé’s writing, in particular, and of Caribbean literature, in general, criticism must borrow an approach that attends to the dialogic connections that subvert linguistic or national constraints. Kathleen Gyssels, in Passes et impasses dans le comparatisme postcolonial caribbéen: Cinq traverses, [End Page 177] adopts such an outlook in order to detect the textual interactions that are woven throughout the different imaginaries of the Caribbean. The inventory of sites of crystallization of a Pan-Caribbean imaginary reveals a writing of monstrosity and an aesthetic of the baroque belonging to the category of the carnivalesque. The carnival, that motley vessel of traces of Africa and vestiges of the Western imaginary, illustrates, through exaggeration, the complexity of the Caribbean identity found in Maryse Condé, mythe, parable et complexité by Deborah Hess. Faced with linguistic isolation, whether national or cultural, the porosity of the baroque, celebrated by Glissant, Danticat, or the eulogists of Creolity, emerges as commonplace in the imaginaries of the Caribbean. The aesthetic of the carnival allows a better understanding of the failure of the quests for identity that are sought in a mythical Africa by characters in works by Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart, and Myriam Warner-Vyera. In Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers, Anne M. François touches on these fruitless voyages as a search for the father. Nicole Simek, in Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation, places those dystopic returns within the framework of the subversion of exemplary models that we find at the heart of Condé’s oeuvre. Monsters in the House of the Father A tortured genealogy binds together the literary project that Condé patiently constructs, beginning with Hérémakhonon. It seems to me that one of the foundational moments of this novelistic architecture is Ségou, the novel-testimony of the disintegration of the walls of the Africa that is made mythic in the lyrical chants of Négritude, for the disintegration of identity introduces a break in genealogical order. The destruction of the kingdom of Ségou allows Condé to offer a clear exposure of the artificiality of the parades of identity that are strung together by “return to Africa” aficionados...

Mit o Argonavtih v romanu Na slepo Claudia Magrisa

Članek analizira razkroj identitete in razdrobitev pripovednega glasa v romanu Na slepo Claudia Magrisa (2005). Tržaški pisatelj prek metafore plovbe raziskuje razne vidike problematike pripovedovanja, zlasti avtobiografske pripovedi. Razmišlja tudi o mnogoteri identiteti sodobnega jaza in o uničujoči sili zgodovine, katere opresija se nadaljuje tudi v nedavnih obdobjih. Številne problematike, s katerimi se ukvarja roman, povezuje stalna navzočnost argonavtskega mita, ki se uresničuje prek mnogih intertekstualnih navezav na Argonavte Apolonija Rodoškega in na Orfične Argonavte, pri čemer naslov slednjega vira v besedilu ni ekspliciran, v nasprotju z naslovom helenistične pesnitve.