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Language, Culture and Identity in Migrant Narratives

Tildelt: kr 7,8 mill.

The issue of identity, or rather identities, has figured prominently in recent years in various disciplines in poststructuralist approaches to the discussion of the self and the other. A discourse unit that provides an excellent locus for investigating is sues of culture and identity is the narrative. The proposed research project builds on, and further develops, the knowledge and expertise gained from the project "Cultural and Linguistic Contact", known as the KUSK project (Kultur- og språkkontakt), finan ced 1.8.1998 - 31.7.2002 by the Research Council of Norway's Program for Cultural Studies. In the new proposed project, the focus is on the interplay among language (and more generally discourse), culture and identity in migrant narratives. The new proje ct consists of three research focus areas, each of which deals with this interplay in ways that reflect the disciplines from which they emanate: linguistics, literary studies and culture studies. These are: The negotiation of identity in spoken migrant na rrative discourse (Linguistics), Narratives of integration and identity formation in multicultural literature (Literary Studies), and Discourses of cultural diversity, and narratives of identity in museums of cultural history (Culture Studies). These rese arch focus areas will provide the research environment for the proposed research grants in this application for younger scholars (1 postdoctoral grant, 1 doctoral grant, and 3 MA grants). The overall research questions concern how identity is expressed, c onstructed and negotiated in narratives of migrant life in multilingual and culturally diverse settings and what the relative roles of language and culture are in this process. The project will investigate to what extent these identities present new under standings of cultural diversity.

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