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Record Nr.

UNISA996571858803316

Autore

Evans Vanessa

Titolo

Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century : Literary and Cultural Perspectives on a Legal Concept

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

3-8394-7019-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 pages)

Collana

Edition Kulturwissenschaft

Altri autori (Persone)

BanerjeeMita

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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.