The rhetoric of cultural identity generally goes in two potential
directions: One a universal line that insists on an overall pattern
of integration and harmony among all peoples regardless of their
differences, and the other a line which suggests that various
cultures are so specific and different that they will eventually
enter into clash, violence and war. Drawing upon Derrida's concept
of differance, I will point out that such rhetoric as examples of
current political discourses fail to open the concept of cultural
identity through redefining its relationship with otherness. This
will be accompanied by poetry of Rumi and Whitman to suggest that
their literary language through its non-dialectic characteristics
is familiar with the problematic of identity and has the ability to
form a cross-cultural dialogue. Sufism And Transcendentalism
envisages the possibility of dialogue against the background of
political conflict.
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