Journal articles: 'Identity Crisis in Literature'

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Gutierrez, Nancy A. "An Identity Crisis?" PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 115, no. 5 (October 2000): 1274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900062787.

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Shah, Bina. "Literature: The antidote to the Pakistani identity crisis." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 49, no. 1 (February 26, 2014): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989413513984.

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Mariconda, Simone, Alessandra Zamparini, and Francesco Lurati. "Identity matters." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 24, no. 1 (February 13, 2019): 115–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-06-2018-0069.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conceptually develop and empirically test a model according to which a crisis leads to a greater reputational damage when it is highly relevant to the firm’s organizational identity or highly relevant to stakeholders’ identity. Design/methodology/approach A total of 299 participants based in the USA were recruited online using the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform. The study uses a 2 (relevance of crisis to organizational identity: low vs high) × 2 (relevance of crisis to stakeholders’ identity: low vs high) between-subjects experimental design. Findings The results confirm the hypotheses that an organizational crisis leads to greater reputational damage when it is highly relevant to the firm’s organizational identity or when it is highly relevant to stakeholders’ identity. No significant interaction between the two variables was found. Research limitations/implications Future research could focus on further elaborating on how the two identity-related variables tested in this paper interact with other variables that have already been studied for moderating the effects of crises on reputation damage. Practical implications The paper reaffirms the deep interconnection between identity, stakeholders and reputation. Concretely, the results of the study suggest an informative way of mapping the degree to which risks or issues could potentially damage organizational reputation. Originality/value The paper contributes to the literature by providing a more situational understanding of how the same exact crisis can damage the reputation of organizations differently. By doing so, the paper opens several new avenues for future research.

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Savarimuththu Kilbert, Thangarajah Jeevahan, and Maniccarajah Thamilselvan. "Things fall apart: A liminal identity: Thematic approach of identity crisis." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 17, no. 1 (January 30, 2023): 589–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.17.1.0079.

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The aim of this research is to analyze the novel, Things Fall Apart as a liminal Identity: Thematic approach of Identity Crisis from the perspective of Postcolonial Literature. The study analyzes the plot development and the thematic aspects of the novel on one level. On the other level the paper analyzes how the facts related to the colonial aspects of Africa and the impact of colonialism are embedded in this fiction. Therefore, it is a comparative study of Post-colonialism and Post-Colonial Literature. A brief introduction to Postcolonial literature is given at the outset. The indication of the word ‘post-colonialism’ along with the origin and development of the postcolonial theories and studies are critically examined. The research evaluates the thematic aspect of postcolonial literature, identity crisis with special reference to liminal identity. It also critically analyses the various representative authors like Rushdie, Achebe, Ondantje, Fanon, Derek Walcott, and J. M. Coetzee in addition to some female writers like Jamaica Kancaid, Isabelle Illende and Eavan Bolland. Furthermore, it also briefly examines the political history of colonization and the impact of colonialism on the literature produced during post-colonial period. The research introduces Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, from the point of his personal and historical background in order to compare the content and the context of his writing. Thus, the study reveals that the novel, Things Fall Apart, is a revelation of Identity Crisis.

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Tyupa, V. I. "Crisis of sociocultural identity in the classical Russian literature." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 4 (2019): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/69/6.

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Zhou, Xian. "Legitimation of local literature and the crisis of identity." Neohelicon 34, no. 2 (October 27, 2007): 77–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11059-007-2007-5.

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Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder. "Ameena: Gender, Crisis and National Identity." Oxford Literary Review 16, no. 1 (July 1994): 147–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/olr.1994.006.

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Champagne, Roland A., and Robert G. Dunn. "Identity Crisis: A Social Critique of Postmodernity." World Literature Today 72, no. 4 (1998): 905. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40154458.

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Boren, David L. "An Identity Crisis: For the United States." World Literature Today 80, no. 5 (2006): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40159187.

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Ștefanovici, Smaranda. "Anzia Yezierska and the Identity Crisis in Jewish-American Literature." Acta Marisiensis. Philologia 4, no. 1 (September 1, 2022): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/amph-2022-0065.

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Abstract Religious and racial identities are being reconceived as responses to cultural environments. Many Jews continue to hold conflicting ideas about their identity. We will trace the realities and challenges of being Jewish in the USA through Anzia Yezierska’s “The Lost Beautifulness.” The short story demonstrates the failure of Americanization and the need for a hybrid identity for Jewish-American immigrants to solve their identity crisis in the American context. The main character uses the white paint for the kitchen as a symbolic path towards assimilating American concepts of whiteness, cleanliness, and beauty, apparently making her equal to and accepted by the American mainstream middle and upper-class population.

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Tilley, Elizabeth. "Stoker, Paris and the Crisis of Identity." Literature & History 10, no. 2 (November 2001): 26–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/lh.10.2.2.

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Hindy, Assist prof Dr Hassan Salim. "Identity Crisis in the critical discour." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 219, no. 1 (September 1, 2018): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v219i1.506.

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The challenge facing our nation at the level of identity and privacy of the most dangerous forms of the challenge and the most lethal in the entity of the nation, and it seems this fresh in the social, political and economic aspects illustrated at its peak in the intellectual, literary and cultural aspects, and tools responsible for evaluating namely Monetary who is suffering from a crisis of identity and belonging .otbdo the features of this crisis in several directions: those related to the impact of doctrines expatriate cash and curricula that are not consistent in its premises and perceptions and ideas with the nature of Arab literature and privacy, including with regard to the language of criticism itself transformed by the translator and the tendency philosophical to another crisis transformation without understanding the critical texts , with which it has complete chaos on the level of use of terms and localization adding new problematic and other crisis. This comes in the whole framework of the unclear position of heritage in general and monetary Heritage in particular.

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Fabien-Ouellet, Nicolas, and David Scott Conner. "The Identity Crisis of Hard Cider." Journal of Food Research 7, no. 2 (February 11, 2018): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jfr.v7n2p54.

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In the past 5 years, the hard cider industry in the U.S. has undergone a sudden and dramatic growth period. This boom initially revealed challenges on the cider-specific apple supply side, but issues on the hard cider demand side have also emerged. This mixed methods study conducted in Vermont, a crucial player of the U.S. hard cider industry, addresses the gaps in the literature both on the apple supply side, and on the hard cider demand side. On the apple supply side, fourteen semi-structured interviews demonstrated that neither a long-term formalized contract nor a cooperative model (the two strategic partnership mechanisms used by world’s leading industries to manage cider-specific apple production) are appropriate for the current Vermont industry context. On the hard cider demand side, cider makers expressed high interest in working under a geographical indication (GI) label to develop consumers’ hard cider literacy and increase demand. This research further indicates that GIs can act as a powerful economic development tool. Introducing hard cider GIs could address current hard cider industry issues on both the supply side and the demand side.

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Gurjar, Prem Singh. "The crisis of identity and the voice of resistance: Tribal Literature." RESEARCH HUB International Multidisciplinary Research Journal 9, no. 5 (May 25, 2022): 24–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.53573/rhimrj.2022.v09i05.005.

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Literature creates a new society. Provides new condition and direction to the society. In the late twentieth century, new social movements appeared in India. Dalits, women, tribals and tribal communities, through new solidarity, opposed exploitation towards themselves and launched a collective campaign for the emancipation of the entire community. Along with the socio-political movement, the literary movement was also the main part of this campaign. Dalit discourse and women discourse are the result of this. In the identity discourses that came to light after independence, the newest discourse after Dalit discourse and women discourse is tribal discourse. Now tribal literature containing tribal consciousness has made its presence felt on the Hindi literature board. After decades of struggle and resistance, today tribal literature is being brought under the central periphery as an autonomous subject, tribal society and literature are being discussed continuously. But like the tribal society, the struggle of tribal literature continues even today. Even today tribal literature is facing many problems and challenges. The main reason for this is the tribal society, the unfamiliarity and neglectful attitude of the society outside life. Tribal literature can be an important means of communicating with the tribal society, provided it is properly evaluated, for this it is essential to have an understanding of its basic elements. It is necessary to have proper concepts and parameters of tribal literature. Abstract in Hindi Language: साहित्य समाज का नव सृजन करता है। समाज को नयी दशा व दिशा प्रदान करता है। बीसवीं सदी के अंत में भारत में नए सामाजिक आंदोलन दृष्टिगत हुए। दलितों, स्त्रियों, आदिवासियों व जनजातीय समुदायों ने नई एकजुटता के माध्यम से अपने प्रति शोषण का विरोध किया और संपूर्ण समुदाय की मुक्ति हेतु सामूहिक अभियान चलाया। सामाजिक राजनीतिक आंदोलन के साथ-साथ साहित्यिक आंदोलन भी इस अभियान का मुख्य हिस्सा था। दलित विमर्श और स्त्री विमर्श इसी का परिणाम है। आज़ादी के पश्चात् प्रकाश में आए अस्मितावादी विमर्शों में दलित विमर्श एवं स्त्री विमर्श के बाद सबसे नया विमर्श आदिवासी विमर्श है। अब आदिवासी चेतना से युक्त आदिवासी साहित्य हिंदी साहित्य पटल पर अपनी उपस्थिति दर्ज करा चुका है। दशकों के संघर्ष और प्रतिरोध के पश्चात् आज आदिवासी साहित्य को स्वायत्त विषय के रूप में केन्द्रीय परिधि में लाया जा रहा है, आदिवासी समाज व साहित्य पर निरन्तर पर चर्चा की जा रही है। किंतु आदिवासी समाज की तरह आदिवासी साहित्य का संघर्ष आज भी जारी है। आज भी आदिवासी साहित्य अनेक समस्याओं एवं चुनौतियों से जूझ रहा है। इसका प्रमुख कारण आदिवासी समाज, जीवन से बाहरी समाज का अपरिचय और उपेक्षापूर्ण रवैया है। आदिवासी समाज से संवाद करने का आदिवासी साहित्य महत्त्वपूर्ण ज़रिया हो सकता है, बशर्तें उसका सही मूल्यांकन किया जाये इस हेतु इसके बुनियादी तत्वों की समझ होना अपरिहार्य है। आदिवासी साहित्य की उचित धारणाएँ एवं मापदण्ड होने आवश्यक हैं। Keywords: अस्मिता, प्रतिरोध, आदिवासी, साम्राज्यवाद, संघर्ष, रवैया।

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Allawi, Thamer Yousif, and Nabil Nasir Noaman. "Struggle and Identity Crisis of the Migrated Women in Selected American Novels." Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities 28, no. 7 (July 9, 2021): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jtuh.28.7.2021.23.

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With three featured novels as a primary focus, this study investigates issues of gender conflict and identity crisis among migrant women. The Jungle (1904) by Upton Sinclair, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Pocho (1959) by Jose Antonio Villarreal are among the novels to be studied. The problem and role of women has been neglected. Previous research on women’s migration has focused on struggle and identity crises, resulting in a wide body of literature that can be used to better understand the issue. The following study elucidates that the unhealthy and inappropriate treatment to migrant women contributes to the continued victimization of these women. The scope of this research can be identified by STANDPOINT THEORY. This theory is adopted to analyze the domain of struggle and identity crisis of migration women. This analysis looks at a few of the American novels about women immigration and their struggle and identity crisis.

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Walley, Jonathan. "Identity Crisis: Experimental Film and Artistic Expansion." October 137 (July 2011): 23–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00056.

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Moradi, Bahman. "Black-skinned Intellectuals Wearing White Masks: A Neocolonial Study of Identity Crisis in Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 5, no. 6 (June 1, 2022): 13–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.6.2.

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Wole Soyinka, the first African writer Nobel Prize winner in literature in 1986, is famous universally, mostly for his plays. But one of his novels, The Interpreters (1965), has been acclaimed as well as criticized by many critics for some stylistic and ideological problems. The interpreters of Soyinka's novel are five intellectuals who have come back from abroad, mainly England, to their country, post-independence Nigeria. The critical perspectives of these interpreters towards predominant corruption and other social problems in most parts and institutions of Nigeria are clearly noticeable. The identity crisis, which is rampant throughout this novel, can be recognized as cultural and, in some cases, biological hybridity. Two social psychological identity problems, that is, identity and hybridity crisis, as well as 'neocolonialism' term, are the main concerns of this thesis. Neocolonialism, as a less debated term in comparison to two other dominant terms, postmodernism and postcolonialism, has been analyzed coherently. Having delineated the neocolonialism term and its connections with literature, this thesis has gone through the characters of this novel and has argued the manifestation of hybridity and identity in all aspects of their lives. Post-independence Nigerian as the context of this work reveals clearly these identity and hybridity crises through its characters. Destructive outcomes of identity and hybridity crisis, which left Nigeria a paralyzed country, and warning to avoid further crises is among Soyinka's concerns, as well as the main points which this thesis is searching to highlight. Not to be mesmerized by western culture and amalgamate it ineptly with one's own, as well as the highly valuable political intervention of literature to reflect psychological problems of supressed societies would be regarded as a significant finding of such research.

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Zobenica, Nikolina. "THE IDENTITY CRISIS OF AN OUTSIDER: EXCEPTION AND RULE IN GÜNTER GRASS´ DANZIG TRILOGY." Folia linguistica et litteraria XIII, no. 41 (2022): 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.41.2022.2.

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Günter Grass (1926–2015), in his Danzig Trilogy (The Tin Drum – Cat and Mouse – Dog Years), depicted exceptional existences, who are not like most of the Germans before, during and after World War II, resulting in their isolation and the absence of guidance and support from the adults around them. The small-statured Oskar Matzerath critically observes and challenges the world from a frog’s perspective and uses his tin drum as a means of provoking the people around him. Joachim Mahlke, tortured by an inferiority complex, is not able to stand the pressure of social isolation. The half-Jew Eduard Amsel establishes his own underground world, in order to flee the dangers of the aggressive real world. They all experience a deep identity crisis and struggle to strike the right path in their lives, with a greater or lesser degree of success. The subjects of the analysis in this paper are these main figures, their common features and differences, their identity crises and their struggle to deal with these crises. The concept of an identity crisis is discussed here from two aspects: as identity deficit and identity conflict. An identity deficit (crisis of motivation) is the lack of a guiding commitment and struggle to establish personal goals and values. When going through an identity conflict (legitimation crisis), a person has several commitments, and in some situations at least one of them has to be betrayed. The examples of Oskar and Eduard show that art is and remains the only successful means to overcome the discord between the agreement with oneself and with society, and to overcome the identity crisis, which is the result of loss and/or inadequate choice of guiding commitments and values. However, Grass was of the opinion that it is the duty of artists to use their creative potential and talent with a responsibility towards society, to bring enlightenment with their criticism, and therefore help the people to become aware of the reality as it is.

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Mansouri, Niloofar, and Samira Sasani. "Identity Crisis in Reza Ghasemi’s The Nocturnal Harmony of Wood Orchestra." k@ta 22, no. 2 (December 13, 2020): 93–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/kata.22.2.93-100.

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ABSTRACTMigration, this multifaceted phenomenon, has always been a concept of importance in different domains such as art and literature. What impacts migration has on human psychology can be well elaborated on using the tool of characterization in stories. Among these impacts, the one regarding identity is probably of highest importance. Therefore, the literature of diaspora can be a field for exploring the process of identity refashioning. What the present study aims to elaborate on is Reza Ghasemi’s The Nocturnal Harmony of Wood Orchestra and the way identity crisis is manifested in and handled by the characters in this book. The analysis is grounded on Homi Bhabha’s concept of Third-Space but to specifically analyze the challenges that immigrant characters face in this liminal location, Yuri Lotman’s cultural idea of semiosphere is also incorporated. Keywords: Identity Crisis, Literature of Diaspora, Reza Ghasemi, Third-Space, Yuri Lotman

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Sutarna, Iwan Tanjung, Khuriyatul Husna, and Paramita Iswari. "Elaboration on Public Administration Crises: An Endeavor in Seeking Scientifc Identity." Policy & Governance Review 1, no. 1 (June 19, 2017): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.30589/pgr.v1i1.21.

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This paper aims to elaborate the crises occurring in the science of public administration based on signifcant conceptions of scholars. Public administration’s initial emergence as a novel scientifc discipline sparked a theoretical-conceptual debate specifcally in the domain of epistemology. For the sake of systematical order, this paper is divided into three phases of crisis based on the dynamics of the theoretical-conceptual development of public administration, namely: (1) identity crisis; (2) paradigm crisis; and (3) intellectual crisis. The illustration of each crisis phase is aimed at conveying conception points of scientists which facilitates in reading the narrative of shifts and theoretical-conceptual contents including their inherent values. For this reason, a search or walkthrough of relevant literature is necessary to observe the development of thoughts in public administration.The study result shows that the diﬀering ideas and argumentations which had occurred throughout every discussion on public administration have had implications on the heterogeneity of the public administration feld. The various shifts of locus-focus and paradigm in public administration is seen as a systematic atempt in fnding its true self as a scientifc discipline. The eﬀorts of public administration in separating itself from the shadows of political science was also observed, although being capable of truly separating itself is considered as extremely difcult, bearing in mind that the focus and locus of public administration is very much aﬀected by constantly developing social political inﬂuences. In addition to that, various shifts of locus and focus seems to have empirical implications particularly in the scientifc scope of public administration.

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Ababneh, Mahmoud. "Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature by Roger McNamara." ariel: A Review of International English Literature 50, no. 2-3 (2019): 252–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2019.0025.

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Borca, Bianca, Lisa-Maria Putz, and Florian Hofbauer. "Crises and Their Effects on Freight Transport Modes: A Literature Review and Research Framework." Sustainability 13, no. 10 (May 20, 2021): 5740. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13105740.

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Learning from the effects of past crises allows the transport sector to handle future crises effectively and proactively. The goal of this paper is to identify and classify types of crises that have hit Europe in the previous 20 years and to identify the effects of these crises on the freight transport modes. Moreover, further research on each transport mode is derived. To reach this goal, we conducted a systematic literature review by using five well-known databases, which resulted in 296 search results, of which 29 references were relevant. We identified four crises that hit the freight transport modes in the previous 20 years in Europe: the 2008 financial crisis, the 2015 migration crisis, the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, and the ongoing climate crisis. However, the effects of the different crises on the transport modes can be both positive (e.g., the introduction of a new maritime slow-steaming service) or negative (e.g., a reduction in safety). The insights, gaps, and future research directions identified will encourage researchers, as well as practitioners, to learn from previous crises and be prepared for proactive actions during future crises, thus contributing to more reliable and sustainable transportation systems.

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Yonefendi, Yesi, Pawito Pawito, and Mahendra Wijaya. "Cultural Identity Post-Conflict: Crisis of Madurese culture identity In Sampit Central Borneo After Ethnic Conflict." International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 5, no. 5 (October 25, 2018): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v5i5.444.

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The research attempts to examine the crisis of Madurese cultural identity exposure in intercultural communication in Sampit (Central Borneo Province) after the 2001 ethnic conflict which involved two major ethnic groups i.e the Dayak ethnic (native community) and Madurese ethnic (migrant community). Using base descriptive qualitative approach by interviewing numerous Madurese people living in Sampit and using literature review. The research reveals that affected the formation of cultural identity among the residents of Sampit of Madurese descent. This Cultural identity experienced a crisis and change, because not in accordance with the value of local culture. In other hands, the research found that cultural identities of Madurese are strengthened. It arises because of conformity and mutual support with local cultural values. Understanding to intercultural communication is very important to create acculturation with local culture to avoid problems due to cultural differences, especially for newcomers from the Madura Island.

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Dani, Erzsébet. "Change, Crisis, Perspective, and Identity in Two Novels by Rózsa Ignácz." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 13, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 89–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2021-0007.

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Abstract For Hungarians who remained stuck beyond the borders after WWI, finding themselves in a foreign country from one day to the next, the historical trauma of the Trianon Treaty occasioned intercultural tribulations never experienced before. What the resulting Transylvanian literature discussed here is concerned with, however, is not what Jeffrey C. Alexander’s cultural trauma theory calls “the trauma process”, “the spiral of signification” (Alexander 2004, 11). Rather, it is concerned with “the indelible marks” “the horrendous event” left “upon group consciousness […] changing their future identity in fundamental and irrevocable ways” (Alexander 2004, 1). This literature displays a rich array of the management strategies of minority identity. Earlier I devoted a book to the identity types that ensued from those strategies (Dani 2016a). The present work is based on that monograph and moves on. This time I wish to focus on the key figures of two Rózsa Ignácz novels (Anyanyelve magyar and Született Moldovában) to demonstrate the complex identity patterns that an erosion of minority native language and culture, so destructive to identity, yields. The road that the Hungarian minority travels leads through a succession of active and reactive changes, crises, and modifications of perspective in the maze of minority versus hegemonic intercultural relations.1

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Regmi, Bhawana. "Rajab’s Atlantic Street and Identity Crisis in a Globalized World of Disorientation." Prithvi Academic Journal 1, no. 1 (May 31, 2018): 68–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/paj.v1i1.25901.

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Human beings have been very protective about their identities. Cultural identity is one of the mechanisms that keep them connected to each other and their roots in the globalized world. This becomes more evident in times of threat and uncertainty about their belonging. Therefore, the issues of identity come to the fore in migration and diaspora discourses. In this article, I draw from Stuart Hall’s idea of identity and argue that irrespective of the socio-cultural disorientation and ethnic prejudices, in which the central character undergoes in the novel and craves for and succeeds in creating an identity. Not only the protagonist but also other characters come together to proclaim their identity which on the other hand establishes Atlantic Street as a novel by Rajab1 that represents ethnic prejudices. However, the prejudices the characters suffer, in turn, help to bring together the characters who suffer and constitute an ethnic bond between them. The inscription of the lack of recognition as human beings, and the pursuit of identity in and through literature respectively, reiterate the fact that both literature and identity are cultural products that are entwined.

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Musanga, Terrence. "GRAHAM LANG’S DEPICTION OF THE ZIMBABWEAN CRISIS, MIGRATION AND IDENTITY IN PLACE OF BIRTH (2006)." Imbizo 5, no. 2 (June 23, 2017): 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2078-9785/2846.

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This paper explores Graham Lang’s depiction of the Zimbabwean crisis, migration and identity in Place of Birth (2006). The text, by foregrounding the experiences of a white Zimbabwean family’s attempts to survive the crisis, offers a hitherto marginalised discourse/narrative in Zimbabwean literature, which largely focuses on the experiences of black Zimbabweans. Lang’s understanding of the nexus between the Zimbabwean crisis, migration and identity is chiefly centred on the Zimbabwean government’s land reform programme. However, Lang’s depiction of the Zimbabwean crisis in general and the land reform programme in particular largely resonate with colonial perceptions of the African, which project him/her as inherently atavistic in nature.

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Ballentine, Brian Cooper. "Undergraduate Research and the Enrollment Crisis in English Literature." Pedagogy 22, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 43–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15314200-9385454.

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Abstract Declines in undergraduate enrollments in English literature are well documented, and departments need to develop a coherent set of productive, practical responses to enrollment pressures. Drawing on studies of undergraduate research in STEM disciplines, this article explores how undergraduate research experiences in English literature can be envisioned not as unique, one-on-one experiences for motivated and interested students but as a curricular intervention that spans the undergraduate academic experience, fosters scholarly identity, and promotes inclusivity in scholarly training. Rather than functioning “by arrangement,” undergraduate research in English should be a coordinated enterprise that is established as an expectation for incoming students and a feature of every level of the major.

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Corkhill, A. "The crisis of sexual identity in Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg." Forum for Modern Language Studies 37, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 38–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/37.1.38.

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Neubauer, John. "The Fin de Siècles in literature." European Review 2, no. 3 (July 1994): 221–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798700001125.

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Jacques Derrida's remark, ‘What is proper to a culture is to not be identical to itself,’ serves as a point of departure for a discussion of artistic and ethnic identities in late-19th and late 20th century literatures. The first part of this paper studies the images of the European and the colonized ‘Other’ in Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness and J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians. The second part examines notions of artistic and ethnic identity in the culture of fin de siècle Vienna. The ‘crisis of liberalism’, which plays a pivotal role in Carl Schorske's study of that culture, gains new and urgent meaning through the ethnic conflicts that arose in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire. Studying artistic identity today, we must distinguish between notions of diffuse identity in post-modern culture and the ethnic identity that writers not infrequently assume in Middle-and Eastern Europe.

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Liu, Tingxuan. "Construction of Hybrid Identity in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 7, no. 6 (November 1, 2016): 1198. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0706.18.

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Samuel Selvon (1923-1994) is an outstanding figure in Caribbean literature. His Moses trilogy is very famous because of his preoccupation with issues of identity and culture. His two representative works The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending giving a vivid description of Creole immigrants’ life in London, have a far-reaching influence on postcolonial literature. The thesis attempts to employ Homi Bhabha’s theory of hybridity to elaborate the formation of cultural identity. The thesis consists of three parts. Part One is Introduction, which gives a brief introduction to the author, his two works, the theoretical framework. Part Two presents the dilemma in which the Creoles have to face on cultural identity. In the aspect of cultural identity, the Creoles experience the process from identical crisis to the construction of hybrid identity. Part Three is Conclusion. Based on the above analyses, the thesis draws the conclusion that different cultures can influence each other. The effective way to solve identical crisis is to build the hybrid identity.

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Shook, David. "Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Centuryâs Identity Crisis by Mandy Kahn." World Literature Today 86, no. 4 (2012): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2012.0003.

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Peretti, Peter O., and Tweetie T. Wilson. "UNFAVORABLE OUTCOMES OF THE IDENTITY CRISIS AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS INFLUENCED BY ENFORCED ACCULTURATION." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 23, no. 2 (January 1, 1995): 171–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1995.23.2.171.

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Adolescents face an identity crisis which needs to be favorably resolved in order for the individuals to become independent, effective adults; unfavorable resolution leads to confusion of ones adult sense of identity. African-American adolescents have a particularly complex task attempting favorable resolution due to enforced acculturation with views and concerns relating to American history, culture, educational systems, religious institutions, science, philosophy, literature, politics and law, which have little association with African backgrounds. African cultural artifacts and mentifacts would tend to facilitate a more favorable outcome of the identity crisis among African-American adolescents.

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Turner, Thomas E. "Memory, Myth and Ethnicity: A Review of Recent Literature and Some Cases from Zaire." History in Africa 19 (1992): 387–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172008.

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Historians, facing “an interconnected crisis of content, method and audience,” have attempted to resolve this crisis by calling upon “a new inter-disciplinary approach to the study and understanding of human memory” (Thelen, 1989a:B1). I believe that such an interdisciplinary approach can shed much light on the phenomenon of ethnicity. I shall attempt to demonstrate this point by examining a number of recent works dealing with the historical identity of the English and with “tribalism” (cultural identity) in southern Africa. Then I shall attempt to apply some of the insights gained to interviews I conducted in Sankuru Sub-Region (Kasai Oriental Region, Republic of Zaire) in 1970.According to Thelen, the crisis of content in the discipline of history arose out of the need to publish or perish. Scholars have researched and written about increasingly specialized topics. “Common questions about how people make sense of their pasts go unasked” (Thelen 1989a:B1).

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Ward, Donald. "The Role of Narrative in Crisis-Situations: Personal and Cultural Identity." Fabula 31, no. 1-2 (January 1990): 58–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabl.1990.31.1-2.58.

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Luk, Siu-Luen. "Adolescent Identity Disorder: A Case Presenting with Cultural Identification Problem." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 27, no. 1 (March 1993): 108–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679309072129.

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A computer search of the psychiatric literature starting from 1983 showed no studies or clinical reports of Identity Disorder. A case history of a 15 year old Chinese boy with Identity Disorder presenting with cultural identification problems is described. Cultural identification among second generation immigrants is discussed in detail. Cultural factors can be very important in the consideration of Identity Crisis and Identity Disorder in adolescents.

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Huang, Qianyao. "Brief Research on City Identity Crisis and Causes of Small/Medium-Sized Cities in China." Asian Journal of Social Science Studies 4, no. 3 (September 20, 2019): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v4i3.635.

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City identity can be defined as the soul of a city and it plays an important role in increasing urban competitiveness (Gao, 2010). Recently, urban distinct features including historic heritages have been badly damaged in the rapid process of urbanization and economic growth, generating a crisis of city identity loss in urban planning, especially in small/medium cities where many have become similar in recent decades. The issue of a crisis in city identity has become established globally. With recognition of identity value, and the rising of people’s physical, as well as, psychological living demands in seeking a sense of belonging, extensive attention has been given to protection of city characteristics and identity recovery by both policy makers and urban designers (Li and Wang, 2006).Particularly, in China, rapid urbanization as a result of economic growth has led to city identity becoming reduced (Li, 2005). Homogenization and standardization in urban planning is very common and prominent in small/medium size cities in China. Many cities face a crisis where historic character and original identity is disappearing gradually and inevitably (Akkar Ercan, 2016).The principle aim of this paper is to discuss what is urban identity crisis and to explore it causes. In targeting this proposal, the following 2 questions and issues may need to be taken into consideration: 1. What is the definition and composition of the City identity? 2. What is the city identity crisis, including its causes and consequences? This requires systematic research on both literature review and world-wide case studies to explore the the city identity crisis and this may provide comprehensive, instructive, and operational design guide for shaping a ‘visible’ city’s identity, enhancing its uniqueness and further contributing to the solution for city identity crisis in China.

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Holland, Alison T. "Identity in Crisis: The Gothic Textual Space in Beauvoir's "L'Invitee"." Modern Language Review 98, no. 2 (April 2003): 327. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3737814.

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Holland, Alison T. "Identity in Crisis: The Gothic Textual Space in Beauvoir’s L’invitée." Modern Language Review 98, no. 2 (2003): 327–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2003.0374.

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Riaz, Wajid, Shaista Malik, and Bakht Rahman. "Quest for Identity in Bapsi Sidhwa’s An American Brat: A Postcolonial Perspective." Liberal Arts and Social Sciences International Journal (LASSIJ) 1, no. 1 (December 31, 2017): 32–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.47264/idea.lassij/1.1.4.

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Diasporic dislocation due to transcending boundaries and its consequences is a much-focused issue in postcolonial literature. All those writers who are living in a foreign culture have faced this issue. Therefore, the clash between the indigenous and the foreign cultures splits their personalities and they search for their identity. The present research is intended to explore the implicit optimism in diasporic dislocation and its consequences in Bapsi Sidhwa’s An American Brat (2012). This is a qualitative research using an eclectic approach, which is the combination of Edward Sarian and Homi K Bhabha frameworks. The results show that identity crisis is a pertinent concept in diasporic literature and the protagonist in the novel under discussion goes certain transformations. In this process, the heroin of the novel faces a dislocation and a cultural crisis in terms of her cultural identity. She could not assimilate a foreign culture completely due to her indigenous cultural roots to apply Said’s terminology.

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Eldershaw, Lynn P. "Collective Identity and the Postcharismatic Fate of Shambhala International." Nova Religio 10, no. 4 (May 1, 2007): 72–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2007.10.4.72.

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This study examines the postcharismatic fate of Vajradhatu/Shambhala International, one of the largest Buddhist communities in North America. Throughout its thirty-year history, the Shambhala movement has experienced a number of internal and external challenges. Following the untimely death of its founder, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1987, the movement experienced a crisis in succession that garnered international negative exposure and threatened its stability. This analysis draws on recent theorizing on collective identity to examine the manner in which this movement has survived the crisis and gone about reconstituting itself. It is proposed that recent transformations in Shambhala International are indicative of larger changes in the organization of religion within contemporary pluralist culture. This study provides much-needed ethnographic data on an empirically neglected new religious movement and adds to a growing body of literature tracing the growth of Buddhism in the West.

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Duncan, Douglas. "The Protean Scot: The Crisis of Identity in Eighteenth Century Scottish Literature (review)." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2, no. 1 (1989): 90–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecf.1989.0029.

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Badhwar, Devina. "CULTURAL CONSTRUCT AND IDENTITY IN THE SELECTED WORKS OF THREE FEMALE DIASPORIC AUTHORS." PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences 8, no. 1 (April 21, 2022): 158–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.20319/pijss.2022.81.158171.

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The primary concern of this paper is to engage in a critical inquiry on the issue of identity in the literature of the diaspora by three selected writers Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Bharati Mukherjee. An identity crisis is not a product of any singular circumstance or reason. There can be multiple factors contributing to the crisis of identity in an individual. It is important to note here that not only the source but also the manifestation of the crisis is varied, in the sense that individuals differ in their ways of internalizing, as also, externalizing, the emotions attached to his/her identity- as a man/woman; as a citizen; as a professional; as a part of the system of beings, etc. My concern, however, is with the loss of identity as a consequence of the loss of culture. I propose that settlements in foreign lands (away from one's birthplace/ native land) are bound to breed a sense of identity loss since there has been, willy-nilly, a loss of cultural identity while trying to fit in into a new land/social surrounding—and the culture thereof.

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Emerson, Catherine. "Historical Emplotment in the Crisis of Identity under Nazi Occupation." Australian Journal of French Studies 51, no. 1 (January 2014): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2014.5.

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Stanton, Rebecca. "Identity Crisis: The Literary Cult and Culture of Odessa in the Early Twentieth Century." Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 57, no. 3 (January 2003): 117–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00397700309598556.

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Slonevska, I. B., and S. Yu Piroshenko. "Contemporary literature as an art representation of the phenomenon of „hybrid identity”." Bulletin of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, no. 4 (335) (2020): 161–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.12958/2227-2844-2020-4(335)-161-169.

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The article considers the features of modern Western literature in postcolonial discourse. Emphasis is placed on researches that have formed the basis for understanding the phenomenon of multiculturalism in modern humanities. In this context, the concept of transculturation as a new worldview and a way of polemics with multiculturalism has been analyzed and the leading ideas have been singled out: „borderline identity”, hybridity, ambivalence, etc. The modern European literature is characterized as an artistic representation of the mentioned concepts, the so-called „borderline consciousness”, which underlies the hybrid worldview. The authors consider the phenomenon of cross-cultural (multicultural, transcultural) or postcolonial novel as one of the brightest phenomena of modern literary discourse. The dominant of creative work of cross-cultural authors is the identity crisis inherent in both the author and his or her character. In the proposed dimension, the work of immigrant authors in general and S. Rushdie’s novels in particular are considered as an artistic actualization of the theory of cultural hybridity, and the narrative of life „on the border” is defined as the most notable artistic strategy of modern literature.

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Khan, Mehwish Aziz, and Eatzaz Ahmad. "Measurement of Stock Market Crisis & its Dimensions: Evidence from Pakistan." Review of Economics and Development Studies 6, no. 2 (June 15, 2020): 389–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.47067/reads.v6i2.207.

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This study explores the history of stock market crisis in the emerging market of Pakistan from different perspectives over the period July-1997 to December-2016. To identify and measure the timing of crises occurrence and their various dimensions (magnitude of crisis, days to recovery, duration of crisis, depth of crisis, size of crisis, etc.), CMAX methodology is employed. Thus, the study adds to existing literature by studying the Pakistani market in this regard and also proposing a method to quantify the intensity of crisis (within CMAX framework). The results indicate that the two major crises of 1997-2002 and 2008-2012 are found to coincide with a number of major financial, economic and political crises in Pakistan and around the world.

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Marazopoulos, Petros. "European unity, modern Greek identity and historicization of the Past : the 'Greek crisis' as perceived in contemporary literary texts." Neograeca Bohemica, [1] (2022): [49]—62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/ngb2022-1-2.

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The aim of this article is to examine the Greek and international aesthetic reaction to the phenomenon of the economic crisis. By examining Greek and international literary texts that depict Greece during the era of austerity, I attempt to explain how crisis is perceived in the literary field. Thus, I aspire to analyse the way in which this literature negotiates the terms economy, crisis, Europe, power and past. At the same time, I discuss contemporary literary images of the Greek Other; through a comparative study of Greek and international relevant texts, I aim to highlight the political and ideological rhetoric of the texts under examination, as well as the perception of crisis as a global issue, rather than a 'Greek adventure'. In that sense, the authors under examination do not simply dramatise the traumatic events of the recession, but they also suggest a broader definition of crisis, as a global phenomenon, discussing aspects of the contemporary European South and its balance with the European North.

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Blashkiv, Oksana. "Vagaries of (Academic) Identity in Contemporary Fiction." Journal of Education Culture and Society 9, no. 1 (June 27, 2018): 151–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20181.151.160.

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Aim. The article attempts to look at question of academic identities through the prism the academic novel. This literary genre emerged in English and American literature in early 1950s and centers on the image of the professor. In Slavic literatures the genre of the academic novel appears roughly in early 1990s, which is directly connected with the change of the political order following the fall of the Berlin Wall and disbanding of the Soviet Union. Contemporary Ukrainian literature with its post-Soviet heritage presents a unique source for the study of academic discourse. Methods. An interdisciplinary approach which combines sociological investigation of academic identity (Henkel 2005) and hermeneutic literary analysis is used for this study. In this respect three novels from the contemporary Ukrainian literature – “University” (2007) and “Kaleidoscope” (2009) by Igor Yosypiv, and “Drosophila over a Volume of Kant” (2010) by Anatoliy Dnistrovyj – are chosen for analysis. Results. Analysis of the novels shows that the literary representation of academics’ lives goes in line with the sociological findings, which, in defining a successful academic, put a strong accent on a discipline and academic institution. The interpretation of Yosypiv’s novels about a Ukrainian nephrologist at the American Medical School suggests that protagonist’s academic success is rooted in the field of applied science as well as an American institution of higher education, while Dnistrovyj’s novel sees a failure of a philosophy professor in the crisis of the Humanities as survived in post-Soviet Ukraine. Conclusion. The given novels of Igor Yosypiv and Anatoliy Dnistrovyj show that in case of academic identity theme, the academic novels support sociological studies, i.e. the discipline (Applied Sciences and Humanities) as well as the university rank (American vs. post-Soviet) play a decisive role in scholars’ academic life. This in its turn proves that the academic novel, like in the time of its emergence in the 1950s, continues to be a literary chronicler of higher education.

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Bilal, Zunaira, Saba Ghayas, Taram Naeem, Sumaira Kayani, Ruibo Xie, and Michele Biasutti. "Construction and Validation of Institutional Identity Scale for University Students." Children 8, no. 8 (July 30, 2021): 665. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8080665.

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The current study presents the validation process of a measure of institutional identity for university students. The research is composed of two studies. Study I consisted of the generation of an item pool based on the literature review, semi-structured interviews, and expert opinion, which were administered to a convenient sample of university students (n = 707; 300 males and 407 females) in Pakistan. Exploratory factor analysis yielded a two-factor structure with 20 items, and the factors were named commitment (α = 0.84) and crisis (α = 0.74). The two-factor solution was confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis, which revealed an excellent model fit with the two-factor structure. Study II reports on the convergent and divergent validity of the scale which was carried out on an independent sample (n = 120). Results provided evidence of convergent validity as depression correlated negatively with the commitment subscale and positively with the crisis subscale. Divergent validity was ensured by a non-significant correlation between the subscales of the newly developed scale and a measure of religious belief. Moreover, the implications and limitations of the study are discussed.

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Poliszczuk, Jarosław. "Кризис советского метанарратива (современная ситуация восточнославянских литератур)." Acta Polono-Ruthenica 3, no. XXII (October 2, 2018): 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/apr.1248.

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The author of the article revises the process of gradual deconstruction of soviet metanarrative in literature of Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine after 1991st. Each of those literatures built its own identity, which had to replace soviet cultural discourse. That process was contradictory, but still quite productive. Contemporary post-soviet literature is in boundary situation. It means that the crisis of the transition period has not been completely overcome. The main problems in creating of the national narratives are neo-imperial (in Russia) or neo-colonial (in Belorussia and Ukraine) tendencies.

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