The Ambiguous Nature of Citizenship

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Citizenship-as-Literature, Citizenship-in-Literature 1
4. I Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship
5. Resistance and Activism: The Literature of the Non-Citizen 15
6. Expatriation, Belonging, and the Politics of Burial: The Urgency of Citizenship in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire 29
7. Literature and Performative Citizenship: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) 45
8. Citizenship as Contestatory Practice: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone (2015) 67
9. Changing Scales, Changing Hands: Fugitive Literacies and Reading Beyond Citizenship in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive 85
10. The “Peculiar Citizenship” of African Americans 105
11. Indian Citizenship and Refugee Diasporas: Imaginings in Literature and Cinema 119
12. The “Passing Away” of Our Environmental and Political Tales: Politico-Legal Incertitude in a Time of Climate Change 129
13. II Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship
14. Visions of Citizenship: “The Strangers’ Case” or “What Would You Think to Be Thus Used?” 153
15. Citizenship, Belonging, and Freedom 177
16. Approaching Citizenship Through Inter-/Transdisciplinarity 191
17. Of Transnationalism, Hard Borders and Malleable Cartographies: Translating Rights 201
18. The Female Stranger: A Feminist Reading of Mobility and Social Reproduction in Simmel and Beyond 215
19. Ecological Citizenship and Young Adult Climate Fiction 229
20. The Ambiguous Nature of Citizenship 241
21. Contributors 253
22. Index 257