THE PERSONA FICTA COLLECTION

THE PERSONA FICTA COLLECTION

How much of identity is discovered—and how much is manufactured? Across three essays, Persona Ficta examines the selves we construct for display, approval, and self-protection: sincerity becomes performance, the face becomes an ongoing project, and collective innocence depends upon keeping an uncomfortable distance from what we condemn. Each reveals a different act of self-creation—and the uneasy consequences when the identity we maintain begins to obscure what lies beneath it.

Essays include:

• Packaged Sincerity
• The Mannequin Masquerade
• This Is Exactly Who We Are