The Enlightenment of Cultural Identity in Coetzee’s Diaspora Writing on the Integration of New Citizens in China

The review of Witold Gombrowicz’s self-image due to questions and tasks of anthropology of literature pro- vides a possibility to make an analysis of such aspects and motivators as family, civilization process, role in national cultural process, position in social formations. Analysis is based on Gombrowicz’s prose, memoirs and personal correspondence. Psychological portrait of character-narrator and author himself – autobiographism is pronounced in each Gombrowicz’s main character – is depicted very clearly and has the signs of emotional influences experienced by the writer in his childhood and further years. These influences have formed Gombrowicz’s philosophical concepts, especially his theory of Form, and deter- mined writer’s position in questions of national and cultural identity. Answers on one of the most important issues that anthropology of literature tries to resolve – for what purpose a writer creates virtual worlds – can be successfully looked for in Witold Gombrowicz’s works. Universalism and ubiquity of self-im- age in all literary works is one of the unique features which makes Gombrowicz a perfect object for anthropology of literature. As several scientists have noted, the whole heritage of Gombrowicz is a one large novel with the same character who faces various circumstances and tries to manage them. Reactions, motivations, positions of this character are usually equal to author’s – Gombrowicz always considered himself as the most important and main character. So Gombrowicz’s works become an extremely fruitful field for literary-anthropological research – the writer writes only about himself, he analyses deeply his psychological features and external influences which motivated his actions and formed his opinions. This research is the beginning of a prospective road – the main questions are claimed, the main vectors are defined and the general overview of problematics is made; the deeper analysis of Gombrowicz’s prose and memoirs with usage of literary-anthropolog- ical instruments and considering of it’s issues demand more expanded study which will shortly appear in Ukrainian Polish studies.

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Orthodoxy

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198718406.013.27 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Norman Russell

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Important Influence ◽

Complex Relationship ◽

Indelible Mark ◽

Russian School ◽

The Enlightenment ◽

Orthodox Theology ◽

Modern Orthodox

Orthodox theologians were aware of developments in Western thinking in the nineteenth century, and sought to define their religious and cultural identity in relation to them. In Russia, this found expression in the Slavophile movement and the ‘Russian School’ with its notion of ‘Godmanhood’. Within the latter context, Soloviev’s controversial sophiology was to exercise an important influence. By the end of the century, prominent members of the intelligentsia had begun to return to Orthodoxy in a movement known as the ‘Russian religious renaissance’. In the Greek-speaking world, the guiding spirit was Korais, who saw it as his mission to bring to Greece the values of the Enlightenment. Koraism inspired the liberal wing of the Greek Church, which was vigorously opposed by the conservatives. The complex relationship between the imitation of Western patterns of thought and the recovery of older Orthodox traditions has left an indelible mark on modern Orthodox theology.

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What Are We Allowed to Say?

How Words Make Things Happen ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199672790.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 83-106

Author(s):

David Bromwich

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Free Speech ◽

Moral Courage ◽

Protestant Reformation ◽

The Political ◽

Moral Progress ◽

The Enlightenment ◽

The Future ◽

Uncertain Future

Liberty of thought and discussion, as it came to be understood in Europe and North America, arose from the schismatic energies of the Protestant reformation and the political idealisms of the Enlightenment. The uncertain future of the principle can be estimated by the spread of demands for codified speech and the widening context of recent proposals for censorship—proposals that are often advanced in the cause of cultural identity and sensitivity. Libertarian writings by Milton and Mill are pertinent for their emphasis on the connection between free speech and “moral courage,” and for their warning against the supposition that the future course of moral progress is already known to some people. The distinction between words and actions is worth preserving, as much as the distinction between persuasion and force. Censorship presumes an innocence in the censor that can never be humanly tenable.

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Narratives of Progress and Tragedy in

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391374.013.0025 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Filmer

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Binary Structure ◽

The Enlightenment ◽

Modes Of Representation ◽

American Tradition ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

American Society ◽

Late Twentieth Century

When it was first produced in 1976,Pacific Overturesattracted praise and opprobrium in almost equal measure. It was characterized by critics as both the supreme intellectual, as well as musical theatrical achievement of the Sondheim–Prince collaborations, and as the most cynical betrayal of the authentic vernacular American tradition of the musical. At a number of levels, both formal and substantive, it is a reflexive exploration of the tension between the national and global conditions of late twentieth-century American cultural identity and ambitions and their relation to the legacy of the Enlightenment origins of American society. The two levels discussed in detail are those of the relations between and modes of representation of the principal characters, and the processes of transition between traditional and modern societies. The chapter argues that the binary structure of the theatrical organization ofPacific Overturesin two sequential parts raises issues of the inevitability of the inversion of progress into tragedy.

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Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete

10.1017/9781108178525 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Ellen Adams

Keyword(s):

Cultural Identity ◽

Minoan Crete

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Marital Stability Among Jewish and Mixed Couples Following Immigration to Israel From the Former Soviet Union

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000112 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 158-167 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Yoav Lavee ◽

Ludmila Krivosh

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Social Adjustment ◽

Former Soviet Union ◽

Marital Stability ◽

Marital Instability ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Mixed Marriages ◽

Marital Outcomes ◽

Jewish Immigrants

This research aims to identify factors associated with marital instability among Jewish and mixed (Jewish and non-Jewish) couples following immigration from the former Soviet Union. Based on the Strangeness Theory and the Model of Acculturation, we predicted that non-Jewish immigrants would be less well adjusted personally and socially to Israeli society than Jewish immigrants and that endogamous Jewish couples would have better interpersonal congruence than mixed couples in terms of personal and social adjustment. The sample included 92 Jewish couples and 92 ethnically-mixed couples, of which 82 couples (40 Jewish, 42 mixed) divorced or separated after immigration and 102 couples (52 Jewish, 50 ethnically mixed) remained married. Significant differences were found between Jewish and non-Jewish immigrants in personal adjustment, and between endogamous and ethnically-mixed couples in the congruence between spouses in their personal and social adjustment. Marital instability was best explained by interpersonal disparity in cultural identity and in adjustment to life in Israel. The findings expand the knowledge on marital outcomes of immigration, in general, and immigration of mixed marriages, in particular.

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