Questions of identity and identification are among the most important evolving concerns of contemporary cultural studies. Through processes of personal identification with discursively constructed subject positions, identities emerge across a wide range of cultural practices in the course of social interactions involving the use of language and other semiotic systems manifested in cultural artefacts of various kinds. The present collection includes a selection of papers on the topic of identity and identification in cultural studies today. Incorporating theoretical contributions and practical case studies, this monograph adds to contemporary debates on identity-forging practices from various theoretical positions in different social, historic and national contexts.
The chapters of this volume range from overtly theoretical discussions on the construction of identities and subjectivities in post-modernity, to examinations of the crucial role of (print) media in identity-construction and -representation processes in contemporary social formations through an insight into other key issues in cultural studies, such as gender politics and the construction of femininities, the hybridization of identities in the context of postcolonial work, and the interplay between collective identities and discourses on nation.
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Questioning Diversity: Sexual Politics, Identity and Liberal Individuals
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Challenging the Self: To Be One's other
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"A Chicken of a Gentleman and a Tiger of a Lady": The 18th-century Heroines's Forgotten Strength and Resourcefulness
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Identity and Gender Policy: The London Lock Annual Reports, 1833-1837
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The Construction of Female Identity in Popular Culture: Bridget Jone's Postfeminism
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Between Discipline and Desire: The Construction of Sexual Identity under the British Colonial Rule
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"Indian princess/Indian Squaw": Representations of Indigenous Women in Canada's Printed Press
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Postcolonial Catalan Literature: Najat El-Hachmi and Her Search for Identity in L'Ultim Patriarca
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"Brits on Hols": Images of Spain and the Spanish in ITV's Benidorm
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The Paranoid Style in Spooks / MI-5: Re-fashioning the Subject
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Fiction Narrative and National Identity: Re-writing History in Galicia through Film
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The Spectacle of Envy and Feminity in the Press: A Psycho-cultural Perspectiva
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Intersemiotic Translations of News Texts: The Case of the Culture Section of El País English Edition
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