This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. Focusing on the idea of the "New Man" that has animated all revolutionaries, the present volume asks what it meant to define oneself in terms of one's class origins, gender, national belonging or racial origins.
| ISBN: | 9780714653044 |
| Publication date: | 1st October 2002 |
| Author: | Igal Halfin |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 414 pages |
| Series: | Cummings Center Series |
| Genres: |
Sociolinguistics |