Theoretical Aspects of Identity Discourse in Post-Totalitarian Cultures

The issue of cultural identity and its forms of representation mirroring the relation between a specific national space and its essential cultural patterns should be placed in the contemporary multicultural dynamics, which has stirred different debates on coping with the identity through culture phenomenon. Under the sign of post(post) modernism and post-colonial experiences, Europe has witnessed the cultural revival of Otherness due to the national ‘voices’ which have begun to claim their right to cultural difference as landmark freed from the marginal/peripheral stigmata. It is the case of the Southeastern cultures which have undergone a major re-recognition process of re-validating their national values after the fall of the dominating totalitarian regimes which exerted both socio-political and cultural repression by means of over-ruling Marxist-Leninist paradigm.