Identity and Otherness in the Literary (Cultural) Press in Bessarabia (1985-1995)

As a material existence of an ideology, the discourse creates a space of rationality in which all interpersonal communication is mediated by specific linguistic formulas. Sociocultural nature of these linguistic formulas shows that they arise from the interaction of various circumstances that are meant to contextualize the historical and ideological foundation of identity discourse. Identity discourse acts as a hybrid cross cultural confluences within a country, moving the boundary between identity and otherness. Built by difference, the identity, in Bessarabia, expresses its functionality in the relationship between ambivalence and the unique membership. Hybridization fomula is not only individual but also collective and manages to keep the problem of identity in a present contradictory ideological perspective. The typical context in which any discursive formula, regardless of its nature (social, political, literary) doesn't represent the clarification of the problem, but only an option for the construction of identity, is a result of various socio-cultural and political factors, which are in a continuous ideological disagreement. From restructuring to intercultural integration the Bessarabian identity discourse knows few steps, which analysis makes clear the extent to which identity is seen in this space as a cultural construct, and the intellectuals formulation of identity, understood as a process which involves as well the ideological dimension of the literary (cultural) journalism evolution.