Cultures of citizenship in the twenty-first century : literary and cultural perspectives on a legal concept /
In the early twenty-first century, the concept of citizenship is more contested than ever. As refugees set out to cross the Mediterranean, European nation-states refer to »cultural integrity« and »immigrant inassimilability,« revealing citizenship to be much more than a legal concept. The contributo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Bielefeld :
transcript Verlag,
2024.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In the early twenty-first century, the concept of citizenship is more contested than ever. As refugees set out to cross the Mediterranean, European nation-states refer to »cultural integrity« and »immigrant inassimilability,« revealing citizenship to be much more than a legal concept. The contributors to this volume take an interdisciplinary approach to considering how cultures of citizenship are being envisioned and interrogated in literary and cultural (con)texts. Through this framework, they attend to the tension between the citizen and its spectral others - a tension determined by how a country defines difference at a given moment. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9783839470190 3839470196 |
Acceso: | Open Access |