Open AccessLINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS IN J.-M.G. LE CLEZIO’S NOVEL “DESERT”
Author(s) -
О.А. Кулагина
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
lìteraturnij proces: metodologìâ, ìmena, tendencìï
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-2475
pISSN - 2311-2433
DOI - 10.28925/2412-2475.2018.11.4246
Subject(s) - admiration , desert (philosophy) , representation (politics) , linguistics , identity (music) , opposition (politics) , disappointment , cultural identity , sociology , art , anthropology , history , aesthetics , literature , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , social psychology , social science , politics , political science , law , negotiation
This paper deals with the linguistic representation of the opposition “migrant’s native culture — other culture” in contemporary French literature by the example of a Nobel prize winner J.-M. G. Le Clézio’s novel “Desert” (1980). A brief description of the period of French history when the novel was published is given; then we proceed to an analysis of the representation of the perception of both cultures (Moroccan as the native one and French as the other one), which goes through several stages: admiration “a priori” for a different culture under the influence of existing stereotypes, loss of cultural identity and adaptation to the otherness of French culture, gradual disappointment, escape from a different culture and return to the native culturalidentity. The most significant linguistic means for the image of each stage, as well as lexical fields, through which both cultures are represented, are revealed.