The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony Riley DenisePaperback
Marlene Dietrich had the last line in Orson Welles's A Touch of Evil: What does it matter what you say about other people? The author ponders the question: What does it matter what you say about…
Specifikacia The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony Riley DenisePaperback
Marlene Dietrich had the last line in Orson Welles's A Touch of Evil: What does it matter what you say about other people? The author ponders the question: What does it matter what you say about yourself? She wonders why the requirement to be a something-or-other should be so hard to satisfy in a manner that rings true in the ears of its own subject. She decides that some hesitations and awkwardness in inhabiting many categories of the person--including those celebrated by what is sometimes termed identity politics--need not evidence either psychological weakness or political lack of nerve.Neither an identity nor a nonidentity can quite convince. But if this discomfort inhering in self-characterization needs to be fully admitted and registered--as something that is simultaneously linguistic and affective--it can also be cheerfully tolerated. Here language is not
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