IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS IN THE NOVEL HIDDEN CAMERA BY LIDIJA DIMKOVSKA Cover Image

ИДЕНТИТЕТОТ И ДРУГОСТА ВО РОМАНОТ СКРИЕНА КАМЕРА ОД ЛИДИЈА ДИМКОВСКА
IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS IN THE NOVEL HIDDEN CAMERA BY LIDIJA DIMKOVSKA

Author(s): Goce Smilevski
Subject(s): Novel, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: identity; Otherness; subjectivity; nomadism; contemporary literature

Summary/Abstract: In this text the emphasis is put on the representation of the individual and transtemporal identity in the novel “Hidden camera” by Lidija Dimkovska, originally published in Macedonia in 2004, and later translated into several languages. The novel sets its main character Lila Serafimska into different cultural backgrounds, and the characters evolves into nomadic subject, highly aware of the Other and Otherness. This results in Lila’s perception and understanding of the others not in static categories, but as fluxes whose identity is created in the relation of the I and the Other.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 58
  • Page Range: 516-520
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Macedonian
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