Self-Literacy

<p><i>Self-Literacy: Writing Out Personhood</i> offers fifty perspectives on gaining an understanding of what ‘personhood’ may mean through various disciplines. Literature is a key medium through which selves are mapped as humans are written into being. Such literature is intimately tied to health such as within self-help literature written accounts of illness or of characters who are defined by their afflictions – physical psychological and moral. This book adopts an essay approach to aspects of selfhood including disciplines of psychology (personality) sociology (social selves) anthropology (cultural selfhood) literary (the self as portrayed in literature) and history (notions of self through time). Each chapter can be read in isolation and a comprehensive list of works on self is provided as a bibliography. This book will appeal to researchers and postgraduates engaged in the fields of Literature and Health Humanities as well as psychology sociology and anthropology academics and students.</p>