Transformation of Bicultural Korean American Identity from Role Confusion to Fidelity in Julia Cho’s Durango | ||||
| Helwan Journal of English Studies | ||||
| Volume 02, Issue 01, 2023, Page 64-77 PDF (384.6 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research Papers/Extracts from dissertations | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/hies.2023.425608 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Lamia Fahim   1; Areeg Ibrahim 1; Samia Abdel Meguid Abou Alam 2
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| 1Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Helwan University | ||||
| 2Helwan University - Faculty of Arts - English Department - Cairo - EgyptSamiaS | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This article discusses the psychological grievances of a Korean American household haunted by past traumatic experiences and drained with sociocultural constraints. Adolescents’ psychosocial development is analyzed in Korean American Julia Cho’s Durango (2007) in accordance with the theories of the American psychoanalyst Erik Erikson (1902-1994). Korean American adolescents undergo an intensified struggle between identity and role confusion concluded with the virtue of fidelity as they pledge their loyalty to a lasting coherent set of occupational and cultural identification images. Ego identity gives conformity to all discrepancies in the identification images within American minority adolescents’ psyche. The representation of Korean American adolescents in Durango demonstrates a pressing urge to ratify occupational as well as ideological commitments that pave the way to identity formation. Julia Cho’s Durango depicts how the ego identity of Korean American adolescents overcomes role confusion through the realization of the virtue of fidelity. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| adolescence; Cho’s Durango; identity diffusion; Korean American; role confusion | ||||
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