The phrase "a continuation of self" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing personal growth, identity, or the evolution of one's character or experiences.
Example: "The journey through art has been a continuation of self, allowing me to explore and express my innermost thoughts."
Alternatives: "an extension of self" or "a reflection of self".
The first sign of this renaissance was naturally a continuation of the self-revelations current during the abolition controversy in the slave narratives, of which Frederick Douglass's Life and Times (1892) was the most striking and Booker Washington's Up from Slavery, published in 1901, the last great example.
Which leads back to the question: Will he seek to end that era by asking the country to elect him President, by asking it to choose his rather austere vision of moral virtue over a continuation of the hearty, self-congratulatory patriotism of Mr. Reagan?
His 1999 lecture on "Regulations for the Human Park," in which he argued that genetic engineering was a continuation of human striving for self-creation, stirred up a tempest in a country known for Nazi eugenics.
These memorials used abstract, beautiful designs intended to remove the viewer from the real world, and focus them on an idealised sense of self-sacrifice, a continuation of the principle of a "beautiful death".
The government of England would either involve a directly elected English parliament or a continuation of the current evolution towards self-governing English city-regions.
She has maintained the conviction that one's first duty is to one's own artistic muse, and she has done it as if it were all in a day's work and not a continuation of her work by other, self-dramatising, means.
Soon after the death of his father, North Korean state media lauded Kim Jong-un, the newly-appointed army supreme commander, as "a great person born of heaven" and anointed him the "Great Successor" of the philosophy of juche (self-reliance), signalling a continuation of the personality cult of the Kim family into a third generation.
As such, it would negate any claims of either school being more "legitimate" than the other one is merely a continuation of the same tendencies towards experimentation and self-expression, but using contemporary tools and practices.
Chen called it "the bastard child" of all his past games and a continuation of TGC's past themes of connection, nostalgia, and self-reflection.
Its self-titled fourth album (on Metal Blade), is a continuation of that path, with mild flashes of ambition.
