Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2003

Publication Title

Discourse & Society

Volume

14

Issue

2

First Page

229

Last Page

230

Abstract

In the introduction to this collection of essays, the editor discusses ‘issues of masquerade as identity construction and as identity critique through a range of styles and narrative forms’ (p. 4). All of the scholarship here relies on a performative viewpoint to explore a range of symbolic and literal ‘masks’ in different social settings. In fact, the book’s blurb prepares us to delve into ‘the role of disguise in constructing, expressing, and representing marginalised identities, and in undermining easy distinctions between “true” identity and artifice.’

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The final published version of this book review can be found here: http://das.sagepub.com/content/14/2/221.full.pdf+html.

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