Citizenship, Law and Literature
Title | Citizenship, Law and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Koegler |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2021-10-25 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 3110749912 |
This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law and literature, and vice versa. Building on existing research in law and literature as well as literature and citizenship studies, the collection approaches the triangular relationship between citizenship, law and literature from a variety of disciplinary, conceptual and political perspectives, with particular emphasis on the performative aspect inherent in any type of social expression and cultural artefact. The sixteen chapters in this volume present literature as carrying multifarious, at times opposing energies and impulses in relation to citizenship. These range from providing discursive arenas for consolidating, challenging and re-negotiating citizenship to directly interfering with or inspiring processes of law-making and governance. The volume opens up new possibilities for the scholarly understanding of citizenship along two axes: Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship and Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship.
Bonds of Citizenship
Title | Bonds of Citizenship PDF eBook |
Author | Hoang Gia Phan |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2013-04-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 081477170X |
Illuminates the historical tensions between the legal paradigms of citizenship and contract, and in the emergence of free labour ideology in American culture
Civic Myths
Title | Civic Myths PDF eBook |
Author | Brook Thomas |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2012-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1469606798 |
As questions of citizenship generate new debates for this generation of Americans, Brook Thomas argues for revitalizing the role of literature in civic education. Thomas defines civic myths as compelling stories about national origin, membership, and values that are generated by conflicts within the concept of citizenship itself. Selected works of literature, he claims, work on these myths by challenging their terms at the same time that they work with them by relying on the power of narrative to produce compelling new stories. Civic Myths consists of four case studies: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and "the good citizen"; Edward Everett Hale's "The Man without a Country" and "the patriotic citizen"; Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and "the independent citizen"; and Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men and "the immigrant citizen." Thomas also provides analysis of the civic mythology surrounding Abraham Lincoln and the case of Ex parte Milligan. Engaging current debates about civil society, civil liberties, civil rights, and immigration, Thomas draws on the complexities of law and literature to probe the complexities of U.S. citizenship.
Domestic Subjects
Title | Domestic Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Beth H. Piatote |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2013-03-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300189095 |
Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian home and family. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Piatote tracks the double movement of literature and law in the contest over the aims of settler-national domestication and the defense of tribal-national culture, political rights, and territory.
Citizenship, Law and Literature
Title | Citizenship, Law and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Koegler |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2021-10-25 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 3110749831 |
This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law and literature, and vice versa. Building on existing research in law and literature as well as literature and citizenship studies, the collection approaches the triangular relationship between citizenship, law and literature from a variety of disciplinary, conceptual and political perspectives, with particular emphasis on the performative aspect inherent in any type of social expression and cultural artefact. The sixteen chapters in this volume present literature as carrying multifarious, at times opposing energies and impulses in relation to citizenship. These range from providing discursive arenas for consolidating, challenging and re-negotiating citizenship to directly interfering with or inspiring processes of law-making and governance. The volume opens up new possibilities for the scholarly understanding of citizenship along two axes: Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship and Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship.
A Nationality of Her Own
Title | A Nationality of Her Own PDF eBook |
Author | Candice Lewis Bredbenner |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2024-06-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520414896 |
In 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized thousands of American women. This highly original study follows the dramatic variations in women's nationality rights, citizenship law, and immigration policy in the United States during the late Progressive and interwar years, placing the history and impact of "derivative citizenship" within the broad context of the women's suffrage movement. Making impressive use of primary sources, and utilizing original documents from many leading women's reform organizations, government agencies, Congressional hearings, and federal litigation involving women's naturalization and expatriation, Candice Bredbenner provides a refreshing contemporary feminist perspective on key historical, political, and legal debates relating to citizenship, nationality, political empowerment, and their implications for women's legal status in the United States. This fascinating and well-constructed account contributes profoundly to an important but little-understood aspect of the women's rights movement in twentieth-century America. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.
The Law of Citizenship in the United States
Title | The Law of Citizenship in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Luella Gettys |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2013-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258636937 |