Denise Riley is Reader in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author, most recently, of Am I That Name?: The Category of 'Women' in History.

• Introduction 1. 'Who me?' self-description's linguistic affect 2. Linguistic unease 3. Lyric selves 4. 'The wounded fall in the direction of their wound' 5. Echo, irony, and the political Notes Index.

"This is a remarkable book, eloquent and imaginative, witty and learned, brilliant and intellectually nuanced. It redefines a knot of difficult issues concerning language, subjectivity, and politics that have claimed critical attention for many years. Riley offers a new vocabulary and a new problematic for approaching these topics and thus rewrites some of the most seemingly intractable debates in contemporary cultural theory in an inventive and persuasive way." -Ellen Rooney,Brown University

Denise Riley is Reader in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author, most recently, of Am I That Name?: The Category of 'Women' in History.

• Introduction 1. 'Who me?' self-description's linguistic affect 2. Linguistic unease 3. Lyric selves 4. 'The wounded fall in the direction of their wound' 5. Echo, irony, and the political Notes Index.

"This is a remarkable book, eloquent and imaginative, witty and learned, brilliant and intellectually nuanced. It redefines a knot of difficult issues concerning language, subjectivity, and politics that have claimed critical attention for many years. Riley offers a new vocabulary and a new problematic for approaching these topics and thus rewrites some of the most seemingly intractable debates in contemporary cultural theory in an inventive and persuasive way." -Ellen Rooney,Brown University

Denise Riley is Reader in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author, most recently, of Am I That Name?: The Category of 'Women' in History.

• Introduction 1. 'Who me?' self-description's linguistic affect 2. Linguistic unease 3. Lyric selves 4. 'The wounded fall in the direction of their wound' 5. Echo, irony, and the political Notes Index.

"This is a remarkable book, eloquent and imaginative, witty and learned, brilliant and intellectually nuanced. It redefines a knot of difficult issues concerning language, subjectivity, and politics that have claimed critical attention for many years. Riley offers a new vocabulary and a new problematic for approaching these topics and thus rewrites some of the most seemingly intractable debates in contemporary cultural theory in an inventive and persuasive way." -Ellen Rooney,Brown University