Citizenship, Law and Literature

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Citizenship, Law and Literature

Edited by: Caroline Koegler , Jesper Reddig and Klaus Stierstorfer

Volume 19 in the series Law & Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110749830

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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.

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Caroline Koegler, Jesper Reddig and Klaus Stierstorfer, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Citizenship-as-Literature, Citizenship-in-Literature Caroline Koegler, Jesper Reddig and Klaus Stierstorfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship
Resistance and Activism: The Literature of the Non-Citizen Chandani Lokuge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Expatriation, Belonging, and the Politics of Burial: The Urgency of Citizenship in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire Katja Sarkowsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Literature and Performative Citizenship: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) Caroline Koegler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Citizenship as Contestatory Practice: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone (2015) Janet M. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Changing Scales, Changing Hands: Fugitive Literacies and Reading Beyond Citizenship in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive Sunčica Klaas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
The “Peculiar Citizenship” of African Americans Elisa Bordin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Indian Citizenship and Refugee Diasporas: Imaginings in Literature and Cinema Nilufer E. Bharucha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
The “Passing Away” of Our Environmental and Political Tales: Politico-Legal Incertitude in a Time of Climate Change Matteo Nicolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
II Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship
Visions of Citizenship: “The Strangers’ Case” or “What Would You Think to Be Thus Used?” Laura A. Zander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Citizenship, Belonging, and Freedom Giuseppe Rossi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Approaching Citizenship Through Inter-/Transdisciplinarity Avtar Brah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Of Transnationalism, Hard Borders and Malleable Cartographies: Translating Rights Françoise Král Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
The Female Stranger: A Feminist Reading of Mobility and Social Reproduction in Simmel and Beyond Enrica Rigo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Ecological Citizenship and Young Adult Climate Fiction Valentina Adami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
The Ambiguous Nature of Citizenship Daniela Carpi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Law and Literature; Citizenship Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Diaspora Studies; Migration Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 258
Keywords: Citizenship; law and literature; refugees; diaspora

eBook

Published: October 25, 2021
ISBN: 9783110749830

Hardcover

Published: November 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110749632