Nalézání a vynalézání sebe v příběhu: O narativní konstrukci židovských identit (Finding and inventing of the self in a story: On narrative construction of Jewish identities)

HAMAR, Eleonóra. Nalézání a vynalézání sebe v příběhu: O narativní konstrukci židovských identit (Finding and inventing of the self in a story: On narrative construction of Jewish identities) (Finding and inventing of the self in a story: On narrative construction of Jewish identities). Biograf : časopis pro biografickou a reflexivní sociologii. Praha: Sdružení pro biografickou a reflexivní sociologii, 2002, vol. 9, No 1, p. 29-49. ISSN 1211-5770.

Basic information

• Original name: Nalézání a vynalézání sebe v příběhu: O narativní konstrukci židovských identit (Finding and inventing of the self in a story: On narrative construction of Jewish identities)
• Name (in English): Finding and inventing of the self in a story: On narrative construction of Jewish identities
• Authors: HAMAR, Eleonóra (703 Slovakia, guarantor).
• Edition: Biograf : časopis pro biografickou a reflexivní sociologii, Praha, Sdružení pro biografickou a reflexivní sociologii, 2002, 1211-5770.

Other information

• Original language: Czech
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50000 5. Social Sciences
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/02:00006838
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Keywords in English: identity; narrative
• Tags: identity, narrative

Abstract

Text pojednává o narativní kontrukci židovských identit na základě analyzy dvou životních přiběhů z Maďarska a z České republiky.

Abstract (in English)

This article develops the idea of narrative construction of identities and, on the basis of analysis of two life stories coming from Hungary and the Czech Republic, inquires how specific forms of Jewish identities are constructed in autobiographical narratives. The process of identity construction is discussed in the context of modern experiences of facticity, ambivalence and multiplicity of identity forms. It is argued that narratives play a crucial role in the construction of self-identities: by means of a particular story with typical narrative structure, the integration of several subject positions, events and experiences can be achieved. Life stories are finally interpreted as narrative representations, which construct self-identity in its historicity and explain identity in the process of becoming. In both of the analyzed life stories (the story of refusal and reconciliation and the story of searching and finding), the meaning of Jewishness is transformed in reference to the Holocaust.

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• MSM 142300001, plan (intention): Name: Etnika, minority a marginalizované skupiny v ČR (Acronym: MAMIET)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Etnicity, Minorities and Marginalisied groups in Czech Republic