The Likeness : Semblance and Self in Slovene Society / Gretchen Bakke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakke, Gretchen, Author.

Series:

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 13.

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-presentation--Slovenia.

Self-presentation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 175 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces—of people and things, systems and locations—rendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in bloom and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia’s most famous thinkers to its most confounding artists, from grammatical categories of number to the particularities of history, The Likeness explores alternative modes of self-expression as postsocialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

A Break in the Pattern

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Portraits of a Three-Headed Mountain (1968, 2004, 2007)

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780520974173

0520974174

OCLC:

1158127418