Exploring the work of Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, and Simone Weil, among other, Placeless People argues that we urgently need to reconnect with the moral and political imagination of these writers to tackle today's refugee 'crisis'.
Exploring the work of Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, and Simone Weil, among other, Placeless People argues that we urgently need to reconnect with the moral and political imagination of these writers to tackle today's refugee 'crisis'.
Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at University of Birmingham. Her books include: The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011/2014), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (with John Phillips, 1998), The Writing of Anxiety (2007), and British Fiction after Modernism (with Marina MacKay, 2007). She is currently writing a short book on Literature and Human Rights for OUP's Literary Agendas series, and collaborating on a large interdisciplinary project, Refugee Hosts.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Placeless People: Writing, Rights and Refugees PART ONE: READING STATELESSNESS 1: Reading Statelessness: Arendt's Kafka 2: Arendt's Message of Ill-Tidings PART TWO: PLACELESS PEOPLE 3: Orwell's Jews 4: Weil's Uprooted 5: Beckett's Expelled PART THREE: SANDS OF SORROW 6: Sands of Sorrow: Dorothy Thompson in Palestine 7: Statelessness and the Poetry of the Borderline: W.H. Auden and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
Introduction: Placeless People: Writing, Rights and Refugees PART ONE: READING STATELESSNESS 1: Reading Statelessness: Arendt's Kafka 2: Arendt's Message of Ill-Tidings PART TWO: PLACELESS PEOPLE 3: Orwell's Jews 4: Weil's Uprooted 5: Beckett's Expelled PART THREE: SANDS OF SORROW 6: Sands of Sorrow: Dorothy Thompson in Palestine 7: Statelessness and the Poetry of the Borderline: W.H. Auden and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
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