Review of “Marked Identities. Narrating lives between social labels and individual biographies”
Review of “Marked Identities. Narrating lives between social labels and individual biographies”

Summary/Abstract: This is a book review of the volume edited by Roberta Piazza and Alessandra Fasulo,and entitled Marked Identities. Narrating Lives Between Social Labels and IndividualBiographies, Palgrave Macmillan, London-New York, 2015.The book consists of various interviews with individuals whose lives, mainly because ofthe group to which they belong, could be viewed as ‘marked’. The difference betweenthe idea of ‘stigma’ and the notion ‘marked identity’ is underlined, together with theidea of ‘diversity’, which today is not necessarily something that one should hide but,quite the opposite, something one can be proud of. One of the main ideas of this textis that identity is not a rigid reality but a process, by which individuals negotiate theversion of who they are with others.

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