National identity or multicultural autobiography? Theoretical concepts of biographical constitution grounded in case reconstructions

Abstract: Am I Czech, Hungarian, German or Jewish? What is my mother tongue? To which nation or people do I belong? Are these questions even relevant for somebody who has grown up among different cultures and whose life history means they have different possibilities of where to locate themselves? How does the course of one's life history and the biographical constellation lead to a national or ethnic sense of belonging or affiliation becoming a central theme? The life histories of Israeli Jews originating from a multicultural area of Central and Eastern Europe who were labelled as Jewish during the period of Nazi persecution - regardless of their own self-definition - and who are now a part of a multicultural majority, are ideal for reconstructing the conditions required for developing a multicultural identity as well as a multicultural habitus (disposition). These biographers were socialised within the conflict between auto- and hetero-stereotyping, were mainly raised bilingually, and at d

Object Details

• Alternative title: Nationale Identität oder multikulturelle Autobiographie? Theoretische Konzepte biographischer Konstituierung auf der Basis von Fallstudien
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet ; In: The narrative study of lives ; 5 (1997) ; 21-39

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 1997
• Creator: Rosenthal, Gabriele

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56843
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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