Title Around 1945 : literature, citizenship, rights / edited by Allan Hepburn

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction / Allan Hepburn -- PART ONE: CITIZENS. 1 Citizenship and the English Novel in 1945 / Marina Mackay -- 2 "A Rather Ungoverned Bringing Up": Postwar Resistance and Displacement in The World My Wilderness / Ian Whittington -- 3 Not of National Importance: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Women's Work, and the Mid-Century Historical Novel / Melanie Micir -- 4 Citizens of World Photography / Emily Hyde 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 PART TWO: VIOLATIONS. 5 The Human and the Citizen in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent / Janice Ho -- 6 Interventions: Haiti, Humanitarianism, and The Girls of Slender Means / Allan Hepburn -- 7 Torture, Text, Human Rights: Beckett's Comment c'est / How It Is and the Algerian War / Adam PIette -- 8 Fictions of the Human in Postwar Japan / Claire Seiler Summary "Around 1945 examines an issue that preoccupied social and political thinkers at mid-century and that has resonance still: Who is a citizen and on what grounds is citizenship defined? The volume attempts to articulate some of the complexities that inform the relation between citizenship and human rights in light of a reconsideration of citizenship and rights that occurred in the postwar era. Literary texts and cultural events model problems of rights, such as dignity, freedom, sovereignty, and responsibility. The ssays are unified by an investigation of the human and cultural aspects of universal rights."-- Provided by publisher "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."-- Provided by publisher Notes "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Citizenship in literature. Human rights in literature. Law in literature. English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses Citizenship in literature -- Congresses Human rights in literature -- Congresses Law in literature -- Congresses LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Citizenship in literature English fiction Human rights in literature Law in literature Literature and society Englisch Roman Staatsangehörigkeit Motiv Menschenrecht Motiv Great Britain Großbritannien Genre/Form Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Hepburn, Allan, author, editor ISBN 9780773599024 0773599029 9780773599031 0773599037 9780773547322 0773547320 9780773547315 0773547312

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