Citizenship, Law and Literature / / ed. by Caroline Koegler, Jesper Reddig, Klaus Stierstorfer.

This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law and literature, and vice versa. Building on existing research in law and literature as well as literature and citizenship studies, the collection approaches the triangular r...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Law & Literature , 19
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Citizenship-as-Literature, Citizenship-in-Literature
  • I Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship
  • Resistance and Activism: The Literature of the Non-Citizen
  • Expatriation, Belonging, and the Politics of Burial: The Urgency of Citizenship in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
  • Literature and Performative Citizenship: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017)
  • Citizenship as Contestatory Practice: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone (2015)
  • Changing Scales, Changing Hands: Fugitive Literacies and Reading Beyond Citizenship in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive
  • The “Peculiar Citizenship” of African Americans
  • Indian Citizenship and Refugee Diasporas: Imaginings in Literature and Cinema
  • The “Passing Away” of Our Environmental and Political Tales: Politico-Legal Incertitude in a Time of Climate Change
  • II Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship
  • Visions of Citizenship: “The Strangers’ Case” or “What Would You Think to Be Thus Used?”
  • Citizenship, Belonging, and Freedom
  • Approaching Citizenship Through Inter-/Transdisciplinarity
  • Of Transnationalism, Hard Borders and Malleable Cartographies: Translating Rights
  • The Female Stranger: A Feminist Reading of Mobility and Social Reproduction in Simmel and Beyond
  • Ecological Citizenship and Young Adult Climate Fiction
  • The Ambiguous Nature of Citizenship
  • Contributors
  • Index