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I Love My Selfie

By Ilan Stavans

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780822373179, 0822373173
Google Books ID
ecLADgAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
49 MB (51233329 bytes)
Pages
152\153
Time added
2020-12-20 00:21:40

Description

What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek mythology and Shakespeare to Andy Warhol, James Franco, and Pope Francis. He sees selfies as tools people use to disguise or present themselves as spontaneous and casual. This collaboration includes a portfolio of fifty autoportraits by the artist ADÁL; he and Stavans use them as a way to question the notion of the self and to engage with artists, celebrities, technology, identity, and politics. Provocative and engaging, I Love My Selfie will change the way readers think about this unavoidable phenomenon of twenty-first-century life.

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