Cultural Identity as Dialogism
Keywords:
cultural identity, cross-cultural interactions, principle of dialogism (Bakhtin)Abstract
The paper argues that the validity of cultural identity cannot be an equivalent to the measure of originality of an inherent national subjectivity in it. Such an understanding of identity concept, quite acceptable in the nineteenth century, is insufficient to the actual views at the end of our century. Cultural identity exists only through its own deconstruction and permanent multiplication of several cultural relations. The identity principle is established through the principle of otherness or – to use Bakhtin’s terminology – through the principle of dialogism. Considered in this way, cultural identity undoubtedly refers to the field of research of cross-cultural interactions and such a concept of cultural identity pre-eminently belongs to the field of comparative literary studies.References
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