Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1. Images of Identity: Text, Visuality and Modern Culture, Johannes Riquet and Martin Heusser.- Part I: Digital Images of Identity.- 2. From the "Belfie" to the Death-of-me: The Affective Archive of the Self/ie, Misha Kavka.- 3. Calculating Lives? Memory, Archive and Identity in a Digital Era, Holger P tzsch.- 4. Modelling Vision: Semeiotic Approach to Algorithmic Images, Stephanie Schneider.- Part II: Written Images of Identity.- 5. Ideal Identities and Impossible Translations: Drawing on Writing and Writing on Drawing, Tilo Reifenstein.- 6. On Identification and Narrative Identity: Self-Formation in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, Nicole Frey B chel.- 7. Art, Arcadia and Images of Identity in John Banville's Frames Trilogy, Alexander G. Z. Myers.- Part III: Contested Images of Identity.- 8. W. B. Yeats's The Dreaming of the Bones: Self-Consuming Images of Identity, Chris Morash.- 9. Images of the Vietnam War: Photojournalism, Memory and Civic Spectatorship in Life Magazine, Martin Heusser.- 10. "That was my truest voice" Rap Identities Between Authenticity and Fame, Ana Sobral.- 11. Terrorist Self-Fashioning: Politics, Identity, and the Making of "Martyrdom" Videos - from the 7/7 Bombers to Four Lions, Michael C. Frank.- Part IV: Idealised Images of Identity.- 12. Islands as (Floating) Images: Towards a Poetic Theory of Island Geography, Johannes Riquet.- 13. "Come see my land" Watching the Tropical Island Paradise Die in Poetry, Daniel Graziadei.- 14. Island Images and Imaginations: Beyond the Typical Tropical, Godfrey Baldacchino.