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Think of Mrs Darling

Jenny Diski: Erving Goffman, 4 March 2004

Goffman's Legacy 
edited by Javier Treviño.
Rowman and Littlefield, 294 pp., £22.95, August 2003, 0 7425 1978 3
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... she is ever not performing, what or who is she? Certainly something, because in his introduction, Javier Treviño tells us Goffman acknowledged that the self is ‘always "anchored” in an individual’s "continuing biography” before and after every social event’. I remain baffled, no image comes of this accrued history sitting alone in her bath ...

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