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Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Edited by
Norman K Denzin
Norman K Denzin
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Volume
24
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-2396(2001)24
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978-1-84950-090-6
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978-0-76230-754-8
Series ISSN:
0163-2396
Publication date:
2001
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Identity, displacement and memory

By
Dionel Cotanda
Dionel Cotanda
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Dionel Cotanda
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2001
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https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-2396(01)80031-4
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    2001
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2001

In this article I draw from my life experiences to show how telling an exile's life story reflects a search for identity within one's memory. I also compare and contrast my experiences to the postmodern world of displacement and point to the vital role of interaction in identity formation and maintenance. I posit that there is no self without an other. Indeed, without Other, Being ends.

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