Rhetorics of Self-Making

By: Debbora Battaglia

Book Overview

Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and concept of the self. Finally, the book challenges the pervasive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520087992
• ISBN13: 9780520087996
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"