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Abstract
The second part of the paper deals with the testimonial-representative paradigm as a choice based on the personal expression of unique experiences of traumatic events as a frame for contemporary concrete understanding and a kind of cathartic solution to identity contradictions. The outcome shows that both paradigms could also be productive in articulating adequate identity politics and/or principle understandings of identity problems only if they consider each other as balancing possibilities.
Keywords
novel
war
trauma
identity
nation
poetics
paradigm
history
culture
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