Leavis Carroll’s Alice in Brexitland (2017): Children’s Literature’s Juridical Perspective on Brexit and the Young Adult Citizen in the Narrative of the Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Europa V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Contents XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Concepts
7. Constructing Europe
8. Introduction 9
9. Comparative Law and the Style of Legal Systems 15
10. The Europe of European Literary History 27
11. Constituting Europe
12. Introduction 43
13. Constituting Europe in Verse? 47
14. Leavis Carroll’s Alice in Brexitland (2017): Children’s Literature’s Juridical Perspective on Brexit and the Young Adult Citizen in the Narrative of the Law 71
15. Contrasting Europe
16. Introduction 85
17. Strength as Recognition of One’s Weakness: Identity Constructions in Early Europe 89
18. Some Notes on the Role of Europe in the Development of Modern Islamic Legal Discourse 95
19. Defending Europe
20. Introduction 107
21. The “Spirit” of Europe in Literature between the Two World Wars 111
22. Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt’s View on Europe 121
23. Part II: Commitments
24. Rule of Law
25. Introduction 129
26. European Criminal Justice 135
27. The Inaccessible Rule-of-Law Paradise: Europe and Law in Modern Belarusian Poetry 143
28. Legal Actors
29. Introduction 151
30. Citizenship and Advocacy: The Jurist as Parrhesiast 155
31. Driven by Ressentiment and Sophistry or – Indeed, Parrhesia? The Protagonist as Lawyer in Ukrainian Fiction 175
32. Justice
33. Introduction 207
34. Pitaval’s Journeys: On the European Tradition of Literary Legal Case Collections 211
35. The Court Trial in Dostoevskii’s The Brothers Karamazov, or, The Rejection of the Rule of Law and of European Principles 227
36. Borders
37. Introduction 233
38. Like Stone Rafts in the Ocean: Reading José Saramago in Times of the Pandemic 237
39. The Naturalization Process and Narrating Where You Come From: An Exploration of Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft 243
40. Part III: Concerns
41. Human Rights
42. Introduction 247
43. Human Rights in UK and the Future of Europe 253
44. A Host(ile) Union? Writing in Solidarity against a Hostile Environment 259
45. Migration
46. Introduction 279
47. Europe, Non-Discrimination, and Migration 283
48. “Is There Still Such Thing as a Safe Space?” States in Times of Global Migration and Climate Change 293
49. Citizenship
50. Introduction 309
51. Alternative Notions of Belonging: (European) Community and Citizenship in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet 313
52. Poetry from the Camps: Deconstructing Eurocentric and Colonial Remains in Citizenship Laws 339
53. Digital Self-Determination
54. Introduction 353
55. Creativity Incorporated: Google, Netflix, and the Global Copyright Sphere 357
56. Freedom, Human Dignity, and Digital Self- Determination: European Perspectives in Speculative Fiction 373
57. Epilogue
58. My European Poem 387
59. List of Contributors 393
60. Index 399