Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century

Literary and Cultural Perspectives on a Legal Concept
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-8376-7019-6
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 292, 340 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Reihe: Edition Kulturwissenschaft

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Vanessa

Banerjee, Mita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Banerjee, Mita
Mita Banerjee is professor and chair of American studies at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany, and the director of the Gutenberg Research College. She is fascinated with the work that literature can do across disciplines, from medical humanities to legal humanities and the sociology of race.