Clamouring for Legal Protection

What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5099-4315-9
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

In this novel approach to law and literature, Robert Barsky delves into the canon of so-called Great Books, and discovers that many beloved characters therein encounter obstacles similar to those faced by contemporary refugees and undocumented persons.

The struggles of Odysseus, Moses, Aeneas, Dante, Satan, Dracula and Alice in Wonderland, among many others, provide surprising insights into current discussions about those who have left untenable situations in their home countries in search of legal protection.

Law students, lawyers, social scientists, literary scholars and general readers who are interested in learning about international refugee law and immigration regulations in home and host countries will find herein a plethora of details about border crossings, including those undertaken to flee pandemics, civil unrest, racism, intolerance, war, forced marriage, or limited opportunities in their home countries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barsky, Robert F

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Beziehungen des Rechts zu anderen Disziplinen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Opening Up the Great Books

I. Canons, Great Books and Classics

II. 'Popular' Culture

III. From Cultural Reflection to Legal Protection

IV. Why Fiction? What About the Real World?

V. From Escapism to Engagement
VI. From Empathy to Revelation

1. Spreading Disease, or Inoculating Us from Intolerance?

I. Pandemics in Literature and Culture

A. The Arc of Disease, Suffering and Death

II. The Foreignness of Diseases

III. The Rhetoric of Blame

A. From Vulnerable to Unwanted and Diseased

IV. The Plague

V. From Symptoms to Panic

VI. Creating Empathy

VII. Limbo and the Will to Move Around
VIII. From Quarantines to Quarrels to Empathy?

IX. Art in the Time of Cholera

X. Crossing the Border into Obscenity

XI. Predicting Post-Pandemic Politics

2. Following Pathways, Networks and Guides

I. The Cessation Clause

II. Following Intermediaries in Religious Texts

III. Human Smugglers

IV. Language Issues and Displacement

V. Pursuing the Land of Milk and Honey

VI. Divine Intermediaries and Shift s to Immigration Policy

VII. Guides from Behind the Veil

VIII. Intermediaries to Eden

IX. From Freedom Fighter to Refugee

X. From Civil War to Hell

XI. A Reluctant Follower

XII. Fleeing with Loved Ones

XIII. The Purposeless Quest

XIV. Constantly on the Road

XV. The Search for Treasure

XVI. The Promised Land

3. Opening Doors and Scaling Walls

I. From Protection to Integration

II. From Victim to Slave

III. Supplicating Before the Gatekeeping King

IV. Consulting Constituents on Border Policy

V. Opening the Right Doors

VI. Doors, Doorways and the People Hidden Behind Them

VII. Before the Law

VIII. Ill-Advised Strategies for Opening Doors

IX. Real-World Gatekeeping

X. Rights at the Border

XI. Behind Closed Doors

XII. Doors Towards Metaphysical Voyages

4. Confronting Inhospitable Spaces and Hostile Hosts

I. Storms, Floods and the Purging of Unwanted Civilisations

II. The Romantic Refugee

III. Mary and Percy Shelley: Feminist and Atheist

IV. Refugees in a Time of Climate Change

A. Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein and His Monster: Climate Refugees

B. Percy Shelley's Perspective on Climate and Geomorphology

C. Lord Byron: Catastrophism, Climate Change and Ensuing Darkness

V. From Creation of the Earth to Apocalypse

VI. Being Misled into the Wrong Paradise

VII. Finding Revelation Instead of Refuge

VIII. From Persecution to Punishment

IX. Chance Encounters

X. Finding Hell

XI. Transformation into Darkness

5. Encounters with Aliens, Monsters and Terrorists

I. Monsters in the Great Tradition

II. Insidious Monsters in the (Real) World

III. First Encounters

IV. The Monstrous Unfamiliar

V. A Refugee Amongst Refugees

VI. Confronting Your Neighbour: The Monster

VII. Identifying the Monsters, then Living with Them

Conclusion: From Persecution to Wonderland

Über Autor(innen)

Barsky, Robert F
Robert F Barsky is a Guggenheim Fellow and Professor of Humanities, with a Joint Appointment in the Law School at Vanderbilt University, USA. Clamouring for Legal Protection was supported by a Rockefeller Bellagio Writing Residency, and a Canada Research Chair.