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Around 1945 : literature, citizenship, rights /
"Around 1945 examines an issue that preoccupied social and political thinkers at mid-century and that has resonance still: Who is a citizen and on what grounds is citizenship defined? The volume attempts to articulate some of the complexities that inform the relation between citizenship and hum...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Allan Hepburn
- PART ONE: CITIZENS. 1 Citizenship and the English Novel in 1945 / Marina Mackay
- 2 "A Rather Ungoverned Bringing Up": Postwar Resistance and Displacement in The World My Wilderness / Ian Whittington
- 3 Not of National Importance: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Women's Work, and the Mid-Century Historical Novel / Melanie Micir
- 4 Citizens of World Photography / Emily Hyde.
- PART THREE: RIGHTS. 9 Human Rights and Postwar Internationalism in The Third Man/ Mitchell C. Brown
- 10 Loving Revolutions: Reading Mixed Race at Mid-Century / Nadine Attewell
- 11 Confessional Fictions: Truth and Reconciliation in the Cold War / Peter Kalliney
- 12 Writing Like a State: On Caryl Phillips' Foreigners / Matthew Hart.
- PART TWO: VIOLATIONS. 5 The Human and the Citizen in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent / Janice Ho
- 6 Interventions: Haiti, Humanitarianism, and The Girls of Slender Means / Allan Hepburn
- 7 Torture, Text, Human Rights: Beckett's Comment c'est / How It Is and the Algerian War / Adam PIette
- 8 Fictions of the Human in Postwar Japan / Claire Seiler.