Around 1945 : literature, citizenship, rights

Hepburn, Allan, (author,, editor.). Canadian Electronic Library (Firm), (distributor.).

Summary: "The dilemmas of citizenship were especially acute right after the Second World War. Refugees and stateless people had no human rights protections because they had no national citizenship. Countries further refined the entitlements of citizens according to perceived degrees of belonging. The term "Commonwealth citizen," for instance, was first used in the British Nationality Act 1948 to designate a person with limited number of civil rights, in contradistinction to a "British citizen," who had full civil rights and liberties. At the same time, citizenship assumed international dimensions, especially after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted in 1948, which promises world citizenship for "all members of the human family." Around 1945 traces questions of citizenship and rights through literary, photographic, and cinematic examples. Novels are a particularly fertile genre for modelling the hanging obligations of citizenship because they represent conflict and change through time; novelistic plots incarnate rights through characters and events. Many of the chapters in this volume focus on novels, although others find other generic formations more amenable to the problems of citizenship, such as the notebook, the documentary, the confession, and the melodrama. These essays trace the rippling consequences of the Second World War from 1945 through the Cold War and into the present."--

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ISBN: 9780773547322
ISBN: 9780773547315
ISBN: 9780773599024
Physical Description: 1 PDF (x, 313 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] ; London [England] ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]
Distributor: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2016.

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General Note:	"The essays in this collection derive from a two-day colloquium, entitled "Literature, Citizenship, Rights, " held at McGill University on 21 22 August 2014. That event was made possible by generous support from a Fonds de Recherche du Québec Société et Culture (FRQSC) research grant dedicated to research on the novel."--Acknowledgments. Multi-User. Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. "The essays in this collection derive from a two-day colloquium, entitled "Literature, Citizenship, Rights," held at McGill University on 21 22 August 2014. That event was made possible by generous support from a Fonds de Recherche du Québec Société et Culture (FRQSC) research grant dedicated to research on the novel."--Acknowledgments. CatMonthString:january.17
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	PART THREE: RIGHTS. 9 Human Rights and Postwar Internationalism in The Third Man/ Mitchell C. Brown -- 10 Loving Revolutions: Reading Mixed Race at Mid-Century / Nadine Attewell -- 11 Confessional Fictions: Truth and Reconciliation in the Cold War / Peter Kalliney -- 12 Writing Like a State: On Caryl Phillips' Foreigners / Matthew Hart.
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