Historical prose as a component of national literature is an essential part the cultural life modern nations. One its tasks to form memory large groups that create communities, structure past and preserve integrity uniqueness.
 The historical Ukrainian emigration eloquently demonstrates mutual projections formation conscience identity. exile can serve relief expressive evidence interpenetr...

In this paper I argue that Bakhtin’s dialogic theory of identity (Bakhtin, 1981, 1984, 1986), Barth’s anthropological theory of identity (Barth, 1969, 1981; Triandafyllidou, 2002) and Socioconstructionist theory of identity (Giddens, 1991; Burr, 1995; Shotter and Gergen’s edited series on text and identity) provide a remarkably coherent and complementary theoretical foundations for an explorato...