Performing the self
By: edited by Karen Junod and Didier Maillat
Contributors: Swiss Association of University Teachers of English
Series: SPELL -- v. 24; Swiss papers in English language and literature -- 24.
Publisher: Narr
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9783823366133
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Congresses; Identity (Psychology) in literature
Notes: A selection of papers presented at the SAUTE conference of the same name, held at the University of Fribourg in May 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Performing identities in Byron and Bourdieu / Angela Esterhammer; title: Essentialism, codification and the sociolinguistics of identity / Adrian Pablé and Marc Haas; title: From the Great Plains to the Red Apple Country : identity and ecology in Zitkala-Ša's American Indian stories / Alexa Weik; title: Recovering and reshaping a lost identity : the Gaels' linguistic and literary struggle / Céline Guignard; title: Negotiating identities and doing Swiss in intercultural couples / Kellie Gonçalves; title: Ray and Ghatak and other filmmaking pairs : the structure of Asian modernity / Amit Chaudhuri; title: Falstaff in Switzerland, Hamlet in Bavaria : expatriate Shakespeare and the question of cultural transmission / Michael Dobson; title: Language, ideology, media and social change / Nikolas Coupland; title: "There are many that I can be" : the poetics of self-performance in Isak Dinesen's The Dreamers / Barbara Straumann; title: Constructing identity on Facebook : report on a pilot study / Brook Bolander and Miriam Locher.