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Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on a Legal Concept
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Abstract 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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
migration; post-colonialism; citizen; citizenship; culture; immigration; literature
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
Non-Citizen; Literature; Cultural Theory; American Studies; Literary Studies; Cultural Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
340 p.
Series
Culture & Theory, 292
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470190
ISSN
2702-8976
ISBN
978-3-8394-7019-0
Status
Published Version; reviewed