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Domantė Vaišvylaitė, MA
Institute of Languages, Literature and Translation Studies Kaunas faculty,
Vilnius University, Lithuania
e-mail: domante.vaisvylaite@knf.vu.lt
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2663-7320
Gabija Bankauskaitė, PhD, Professor
Institute of Languages, Literature and Translation Studies Kaunas faculty,
Vilnius University, Lithuania
e-mail: gabija.bankauskaite@knf.vu.lt
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3276-8159
ABSTRACT
The article explores the recurring need to solidify a personal identity in a coherent space and attempts to show how each individual meaning of home, such as privacy, identity or familiarity, can be interpreted as physical, psychological and social constructs and be related to the wider concept of a familiar place. To achieve this, the article applies the phenomenological approach of the Husserlian theory of homeworld, analysing home as a multidimensional concept and depicting different aspects of it. The cultural memory of a nation is revealed through the personal context and complex emotional states. The author analysed – Algirdas Jeronimas Landsbergis (1924–2004) – was a playwright, prose writer and journalist who was forced to flee Lithuania shortly before the second Soviet occupation. His short stories reveal the creative existence of a forced migrant, closely related with the formation of the image of home. This article focuses on the dominant and recurrent ideas of home in three of Landsbergis’s short stories: “Dangūs tuštėja, dangūs pildosi” [The Skies are Emptying, the Skies are Filling up], “Duetas moters balsui ir smuikui Venecijoje” [Duet for Female Voice and Violin in Venice] and “Karveliai virš stogų” [Pigeons over the Rooftops].
Keywords: image of home, identity, forced migration, meaning of home, homeland and identity
How to cite:
Vaišvylaitė, D. and Bankauskaitė, G. (2025). “Individuality and a Coherent Place: Representation of Identity within the Image of Home.” Journal of Comparative Studies 18 (47), 6-25. https://doi.org/10.59893/jcs.18(47).001
