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Title Image into identity : constructing and assigning identity in a culture of modernity / edited by Michael Wintle.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studia imagologica ; 11
Studia imagologica ; 11.
Note Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 2000 at the University of Hull.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; INTRODUCTORY; IMMIGRATION AND RACE; NATIONAL AND REGIONAL IDENTITY; GENDER; TEXT AND IDENTITY; Index.
Summary 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Group identity -- Congresses.
Group identity.
Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- Conference proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Wintle, Michael J.
Other Form: Print version: Image into identity. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006 9789042020641 9042020644 (OCoLC)76949664
ISBN 9781429481199 (electronic book)
1429481196 (electronic book)
9789401203333
9401203334
9042020644
9789042020641