Last semester, she taught a graduate seminar and a freshmen seminar, "A Real Play of Identities".
Appignanesi's mother, during the Second World War, managed to save herself and her husband from Nazi persecution through a complex play of identities.
The satire focusses on religious hypocrisy, but, as Richard Brody wrote, "it's refracted into strange and uneasy territory by the wavering play of identities, as teen-agers try on, with naïve charm, the masks that become, for adults, second nature".
Camus told me that he refused to play "the game" of identity politics, and added, "Do you think that Louis XIV or La Fontaine or Racine or Châteaubriand would say, 'I'm identitarian?' No, they were just French.
Moving from place to place, we play a kind of identity hopscotch, trying to figure out which area is likely to suit who we are, or who we hope someday to be, before the neighborhood morphs right out from under us and sets us to combing the real estate ads again.
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It seems unlikely, though, that Woodman was prefiguring her own death in her work, rather than playing with themes of identity and with the role that photography, and in particular portrait photography, can play in constructing a fixed – and therefore false – identity.
If Peer's identity is the central theme of the play, the identity of "Peer Gynt" was the de facto theme of this production.
WK plays with notions of identity and persona, constructing an increasingly arcane mythology around himself that turns reality inside out.
This is a fertile premise the novel plays with questions of identity, presence, ritual, memory, and sanity, and uses those questions to investigate the larger mystery of death but the book's brevity forces DeLillo to treat his themes sketchily, and at times with an uncharacteristic sentimentality.
