Language beyond Ethnicity and Modern Literature: Representation and Language Choice in Multi-cultural Society

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In our age of multi-ethnicity, multi-culture, and multi-language, it is inevitable for any ethnicith, culuture, and language to get along with others. We attempted to scrutinize how writers and poets are forced to select a language out of some possible others in their representation, and how this situation affects their writing in terms of their own identity as an individual. In addition to this, we tried to find out the way how a new identity could be established, by examining, in their representation with its complicated identity crisis, the various kinds of problems caused by this multi-society and multi-culture. The followings are what our research could show.1. Not only in the conspicuous "multiracial nations" like US or India but in some others which could be apparently taken for "nation-state," like Japan, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania, we analyzed some significant tensions between mother tongues and official languages in their policy for language and culture.2. By examining the works of writers and poets, who produce literary texts through their internalization of more than two languages and cultures in these areas, we traced changes of the view of language and literature and of representation caused by the multiplication of culture and language.3. Looking into how these writers and poets are accepted by the majority of their society we examined the possibility of their new multiple identity's influencing the traditional view of language and literature.4. We reexamined the traditional view of language and its matrix, modern nationalism, and probed the way, including the policy of culture and education, how this new multiple identity could be admitted more widely into our society.