Identities : : Time, Difference and Boundaries / / ed. by Heidrun Friese.

• MitwirkendeR: Baumann, Gerd,; Bronfen, Elisabeth,; Friese, Heidrun,; Fuchs, Martin,; Geulen, Christian,; Hahn, Barbara,; Henry, Barbara,; Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen,; Rüsen, Jörn,; Shimada, Shingo,; Sivan, Emanuel,; Straub, Jürgen,; Wagner, Peter,
• HerausgeberIn: Friese, Heidrun,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Making Sense of History ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface to the Series --; Introduction --; I: PERSPECTIVES AND CONCEPTS --; Chapter 1 Identity: Desire, Name and Difference --; Chapter 2 Identity and Selfhood as a Problématique --; Chapter 3 Personal and Collective Identity: A Conceptual Analysis --; Chapter 4 Identities of the West: Reason, Myths, Limits of Tolerance --; II: REPRESENTATION AND TRANSLATION --; Chapter 5 The Praxis of Cognition and the Representation of Difference --; Chapter 6 Constructions of Cultural Identity and Problems of Translation --; III: WOMEN AND ALTERITY --; Chapter 7 The Performance of Hysteria --; Chapter 8 The ‘Jewess Pallas Athena’ Horizons of Selfconception in the 19th and 20th Centuries --; IV: BOUNDARIES AND ETHNICITY --; Chapter 9 Collective Identity as a Dual Discursive Construction: Dominant v. Demotic Discourses of Culture and the Negotiation of Historical Memory --; Chapter 10 Historical Culture in (Post-)Colonial Context: The Genesis of National Identification Figures in Francophone Western Africa --; Chapter 11 Identity as Progress – The Longevity of Nationalism --; Chapter 12 Culture and History in Comparative Fundamentalism --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782389804
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782389804
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Heidrun Friese.

"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to memory and constructions of historical meaning.