Publisher:
De Gruyter, Berlin
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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...
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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 relationship between citizenship, law and literature from a variety of disciplinary, conceptual and political perspectives, with particular emphasis on the performative aspect inherent in any type of social expression and cultural artefact. The sixteen chapters in this volume present literature as carrying multifarious, at times opposing energies and impulses in relation to citizenship. These range from providing discursive arenas for consolidating, challenging and re-negotiating citizenship to directly interfering with or inspiring processes of law-making and governance. The volume opens up new possibilities for the scholarly understanding of citizenship along two axes: Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship and Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship.
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:...
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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 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 relationship between citizenship, law and literature from a variety of disciplinary, conceptual and political perspectives, with particular emphasis on the performative aspect inherent in any type of social expression and cultural artefact. The sixteen chapters in this volume present literature as carrying multifarious, at times opposing energies and impulses in relation to citizenship. These range from providing discursive arenas for consolidating, challenging and re-negotiating citizenship to directly interfering with or inspiring processes of law-making and governance. The volume opens up new possibilities for the scholarly understanding of citizenship along two axes: Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship and Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship
