DIALOGICAL EXPLORATIONS

This essay is an exploration of political and cultural identity. This exploration is centred on an investigation of the modes of integration of a particular person, the writer, into the political and cultural heritage represented principally by Europe, but also understood, in its wider sense, as that of the West. The West is understood here as consisting in Europe and North America. The exploration of identity is dramatized in the particular form assumed by the essay through which it is conducted. The essay departs from the conventional format of the scholarly essay in employing different modes of indentation for the main text and the refrain that operates as a counterpoint to the text. It therefore tries to harmonise both the conventional essay form and an adaptation of an element in poetic form-the refrain. This exploration in expressive forms is directed at two correlative purposes. The first purpose relates directly to the direction of meaning the essay moves towards-the exploratio...

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