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Transformation of Bicultural Korean American Identity from Role Confusion to Fidelity in Julia Cho’s Durango

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Last updated: 04 May 2025

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This article discusses the psychological grievances of a Korean American household haunted by past traumatic experiences and drained with sociocultural constraints. Adolescents' psychosocial development is analyzed in Korean American Julia Cho's Durango (2007) in accordance with the theories of the American psychoanalyst Erik Erikson (1902-1994). Korean American adolescents undergo an intensified struggle between identity and role confusion concluded with the virtue of fidelity as they pledge their loyalty to a lasting coherent set of occupational and cultural identification images. Ego identity gives conformity to all discrepancies in the identification images within American minority adolescents' psyche. The representation of Korean American adolescents in Durango demonstrates a pressing urge to ratify occupational as well as ideological commitments that pave the way to identity formation. Julia Cho's Durango depicts how the ego identity of Korean American adolescents overcomes role confusion through the realization of the virtue of fidelity.

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10.21608/hies.2023.425608

Keywords

adolescence, Cho’s Durango, identity diffusion, Korean American, role confusion

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Lamia

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Fahim

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Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Helwan University

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lamiafarouk2000@yahoo.com

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Cairo

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0009-0006-2548-7523

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Areeg

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Ibrahim

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Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Helwan University

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areeg_mohamed@arts.helwan.edu.eg

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Cairo

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Samia

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Abou Alam

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Abdel Meguid

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Helwan University - Faculty of Arts - English Department - Cairo - EgyptSamiaS

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samia_aboalam@arts.helwan.edu.eg

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02

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01

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55486

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2023-04-01

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2025-05-03

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2023-04-01

Page Start

64

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77

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2812-5533

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2812-5541

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HIES_Volume 02_Issue 01_Pages 64-77.pdf

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Helwan Journal of English Studies

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Transformation of Bicultural Korean American Identity from Role Confusion to Fidelity in Julia Cho’s Durango

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04 May 2025