Discourses of Identity in Liminal Places and Spaces

By: Roberta Piazza

Book Overview

This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine linguistic and social phenomena in places shaped by displacement and social inequality. The book also looks at chronotopes, the Bakhtinian-inspired concept of the interconnectedness of time and space in identity. The volume demonstrates how studying liminal places...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081539568X
• ISBN13: 9780815395683
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"