introduction chapter one modern selfhood in justine ��. sexuality and troubled urban selfhood in alexandria ��. disintegration of manhood and womanhood ��. rejuvenation of daley's selfhood in the countryside chapter two postrnodern seifhood from justine to balthazar ��. postmodern self as a chronotopic narrator in justine ��. the protean self in balthazar ��. objectification of selfhood in balthazar chapter three postcolonial selfhood in mountolive ��. mountolive's diasporic selthood ��. egyptian elites' hybridity and resistance ��. narouz's shamanic resistance and sacrifice chapter four coummation of selfhood in clea ��. self-coummation by mea of love and individuation ��. sainthood and therapeutic power of the dead ��. "rebirth" of the living conclusion bibliography acknowledgements