Image into identity
Subtitle: constructing and assigning identity in a culture of modernity
By: edited by Michael Wintle.
Contributors: Wintle, Michael J.
Series: Studia imagologica -- 11
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9789042020641
Subjects: Group identity -- Congresses.; Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
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 inc.
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.