I Love My Selfie by Stavans, Ilan

I Love My Selfie (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822363491)

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I Love My Selfie by Stavans, Ilan

I Love My Selfie

$24.95
I Love My Selfie by Stavans, Ilan

I Love My Selfie

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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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 AD L; 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.

Author: Ilan Stavans
ISBN-10: 0822363496
ISBN-13: 9780822363491
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2017
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.60w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2017
By Ilan Stavans
By Ilan Stavans
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Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books, including Reclaiming Travel, also published by Duke University Press. Ad疝 Maldonado is a visual, performance, installation, and video artist; playwright; cofounder of the first all-artist political party in Puerto Rico; the recipient of a Pollock-Krassner Fellowship; and the author of several books, including Out of Focus Nuyoricans.

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