(Ebook) Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory,Identity, and Critique by Anne Wagner, Sarah Marusek, (eds.) ISBN 9783030328641, 9783030328658, 3030328643, 3030328651

(Ebook) Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory,Identity, and Critique by Anne Wagner, Sarah Marusek, (eds.) ISBN 9783030328641, 9783030328658, 3030328643, 3030328651

The book deals with the identification of “identity” based on culturally specific color codes and images that conceal assumptions about members of a people comprising a nation, or a people within a nation. Flags narrate constructions of belonging that become tethered to negotiations for power and resistance over time and throughout a people’s history. Bennet (2005) defines identity as “the imagined sameness of a person or social group at all times and in all circumstances”.
While such likeness may be imagined or even perpetuated, the idea of sameness may be socially, politically, culturally, and historically contested to reveal competing pasts and presents. Visually evocative and ideologically representative, flags are recognized symbols fusing color with meaning that prescribe a story of unity. Yet, through semiotic confrontation, there may be different paths leading to different truths and applications of significance. Knowing this and their function, the book investigates these transmitted values over time and space. Indeed, flags may have evolved in key historical periods, but contemporaneously transpire in a variety of ways.