Psychosocial Identities in Emigration Literary Discourse: Georgian Emigrant Literature. Georgian Diasporic Literature

Abstract

Our research group has separated from each other, distinguished and studied: Georgian Emigrant Literature (from the 1920s to the 1980s); Georgian Diasporic Literature (from the late 20th century to the present). In these two qualities of emigrant literary discourse We investigated psychosocial identities (in­cluding cultural shock, trauma, alienation, nostalgia, resentment, spiritual and cultural distance, adap­tation, personal-cultural hybridity). The degree of creative potential of an individual, who has migrated overseas, is determined by their psychosocial identity, according to migration and cultural studies. psychosocial identities and accordingly significantly varies between Georgian Emigrant literature of the 20th century and Georgian Diasporic literature of the 21st century.