Vol. XXXIII · 2002 · pp. 163-205 (43 incl. 6 illus.)
Schiele, Hanslik, and the Allure of the Natural NationKimberly A. Smith
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Abstract
If we have learned anything from the theoretical turns of the twentieth century, it is that identity must be recognized as inherently unstable and cannot be located in any one source or origin. Both individual and communal identities depend on shifting alliances, structural relationships that work ceaselessly to present a licit image of selfhood. Historically, however, this selfhood has quite often been constructed as the singular outcome of an originary truth, a process that veils the differential procedures of identity formation.