Image Into Identity

Constructing and Assigning Identity in a Culture of Modernity

• Author(s): Michael Wintle,
• Publisher: Rodopi
• Pages: 281
• ISBN_13: 9789042020641
  ISBN_10: 9042020644
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Law / Discrimination , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General , Political Science / General , Social Science / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Discrimination , Social Science / Gender Studies ,

Description:... The pervading theme of this book is the construction and allocation of identity, especially through images and imagery. The essays analyse how the dominant social discourses and imageries construct identity or assign subject positions in relation to the categories of race, nation, region, gender and language. The volume is designed to inform the study of those categories in cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy and history. Its coverage is geographically global, multidisciplinary, and theoretically eclectic, but also accessible. The authors include both established and rising scholars from historical, literary, media, gender and cultural studies. This innovative collection will appeal to all those who are interested in the mechanisms of constructing and evolving personal and group identities, in past and present.