This paper explores discursive narratives as inextricably linked to the construction of identity, place and history by a number of interviewed individuals. From an interactional sociolinguistics (cf. De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2012) perspective, the study explores the context of the East African diaspora (Georgiou, 2006; Manger & Assal, 2006 among many others) as the interviewed participants are all Zanzibar-born individuals for whom the relationship with the island and its history is crucial to their construction of selfhood. The study analyses the narrative voices (De Fina & Georgakopolou, 2008) of those individuals who decided to leave Zanzibar at the time of the 1964 violent political upheaval never to return and those who, on the contrary, decided to go back after a lengthy period abroad. However, more than establishing a division between these two groups, the paper highlights how these individuals take a different positioning (Bamberg, 1997) towards Zanzibar and its history and construct a range of identities in the context of the interview. Keywords: Identity, diaspora, liminality, hegemonic, narrative.

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有和没有桑给巴尔

本文探讨了与一些受访者对身份、地点和历史的建构有着密不可分的联系的话语叙事。从互动社会语言学（参见 De Fina 和 Georgakopoulou，2012 年）的角度来看，该研究探索了东非侨民的背景（Georgiou，2006 年；Manger 和 Assal，2006 年等），因为受访的参与者都是桑给巴尔出生的人对于他们来说，与岛屿及其历史的关系对于他们构建自我至关重要。该研究分析了在 1964 年暴力政治动荡时期决定离开桑给巴尔一去不复返的人和那些在很长一段时间后决定返回的人的叙事声音（De Fina 和 Georgakopolou，2008 年）国外。然而，这篇论文不仅强调了这两个群体之间的划分，还强调了这些人如何对桑给巴尔及其历史采取不同的定位 (Bamberg, 1997)，并在访谈背景下构建一系列身份认同。关键词：身份、侨民、界限、霸权、叙事。