In what ways does Stephen Greenblatt’s deployment of “self-fashioning” operate as a performative negotiation of identity within discursive power networks, and how does this concept problematize the historicist notion of a unitary historical subject?
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It assumes identity is biologically fixed
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It enacts identity as a fluid, culturally inscribed performance embedded in power relations
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It privileges authorial intent as historically stable
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It rejects discursive influence on identity formation