Image into Identity: Constructing and Assigning Identity in a Culture of Modernity (Studia Imagologica, 11)

ISBN 10: 9042020644 / ISBN 13: 9789042020641

Published by Brill, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Image into Identity: Constructing and Assigning Identity in a Culture of Modernity (Studia Imagologica, 11)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042020644
• ISBN 13: 9789042020641
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Michael Wintle is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Amsterdam, where he directs the degree programmes in European Studies. His current research interests are in European identity and especially the visual representation of Europe, cultural aspects of European integration, European industrialization, and the modern social and economic history of the Low Countries. He has published widely on Dutch and European history.