Konstrukce identity v kultuře a proti ní : Autobiografie Janet Frameové
| Title in English | Identity construction within one’s culture and against it : Janet Frame’s autobiography |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Bohemica litteraria |
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| Web | http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/138276 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BL2018-1-13 |
| Keywords | autobiography; identity; narrative; self-concept; Janet Frame |
| Description | The paper examines Janet Frame’s three-volume autobiography (To the Is-Land, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City), focusing on its portrayal of the protagonist’s self-construction. Using a narrative psychological conception of the self (esp. by Dan McAdams) and constructivist theories of autobiographical practices (e.g. Bruner, Eakin), the paper demonstrates the ways in which the depicted search for personal identity in Frame’s autobiography interplays with the texts’ narrative strategies, and relates this identity search to the cultural determination of self-construction and models of identity available in a given society. |