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Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees de Lyndsey Stonebridge

Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees

Autor Lyndsey Stonebridge
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 oct 2018

În lucrarea Placeless People, Lyndsey Stonebridge investighează modul în care fenomenul apatridiei a reconfigurat radical literatura și gândirea secolului al XX-lea. Observăm cum autoarea pornește de la observația lui Hannah Arendt din 1944 privind degradarea termenului de „exil” — de la o aură sacră la o conotație suspectă — pentru a trasa o genealogie a crizei contemporane a refugiaților. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care sunt analizate textele unor autori precum Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett și Simone Weil, considerați aici primii cronicari ai unei condiții umane lipsite de protecția statului-națiune.

Din punct de vedere al structurii, volumul nu se limitează la o critică literară aridă, ci propune o sinteză între filozofia morală și istoria dreptului. Această abordare consolidează temele explorate anterior de Stonebridge în The Judicial Imagination, unde analiza formele de justiție post-Nuremberg, și în Writing and Righting, pledoaria sa pentru valoarea civică a literaturii. În comparație cu European Writers in Exile, care se concentrează pe dilemele existențiale și identitare ale scriitorilor, Placeless People pune accentul pe dimensiunea politică și pe eșecul suveranității în fața celor fără patrie. Este o alternativă teoretică solidă la Refugees Now pentru cursurile de studii literare sau istoria ideilor, având avantajul unei analize aplicate pe textul literar ca document istoric al excluderii. Stilul este dens, dar marcat de o sensibilitate aparte față de trauma istorică, oferind o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care drepturile omului sunt adesea condiționate de apartenența teritorială.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198797005
ISBN-10: 0198797001
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 163 x 242 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților interesați de intersecția dintre literatură și drept. Placeless People oferă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care marii scriitori ai modernismului au anticipat crizele umanitare de astăzi. Cititorul câștigă un cadru conceptual nou pentru a interpreta literatura de exil nu doar ca suferință personală, ci ca o critică fundamentală la adresa sistemelor politice care produc oameni „fără loc”.

Despre autor

Lyndsey Stonebridge este profesor de științe umaniste și drept la Universitatea din Birmingham (anterior la University of East Anglia). Opera sa se concentrează pe efectele violenței politice și ale istoriei asupra culturii contemporane. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără The Destructive Element și The Judicial Imagination. Expertiza sa îmbină critica literară cu teoria juridică, fiind una dintre vocile academice importante care analizează relația dintre drepturile omului, apatridie și formele de reprezentare narativă în secolul XX.

Descriere

In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.' Today's refugee 'crisis' has its origins in the political–and imaginative–history of the last century. Exiles from other places have often caused trouble for ideas about sovereignty, law and nationhood. But the meanings of exile changed dramatically in the twentieth century. This book shows just how profoundly the calamity of statelessness shaped modern literature and thought. For writers such as Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, Simone Weil, among others, the outcasts of the twentieth century raised vital questions about sovereignty, humanism and the future of human rights. Placeless People argues that we urgently need to reconnect with the moral and political imagination of these first chroniclers of the placeless condition.

Recenzii

Placeless People is an extraordinary book that deserves a wide readership. It is a ground-breaking contribution to the feld of literary refugee studies and a textbook example of how intellectual history can help us read literature and vice versa.
This carefully researched, elegantly and passionately argues book exemplifies the values of practicing "law and literature" for apprehending modern exile and understanding refugees.
The book is beautifully written, and brings an intricate perspective to the topics of rights, citizenship, statelessness and refugee experience.
Scrupulously researched and documented, this invaluable and informative volume is illustrated with relevant photographs and quotations.
A stunning study as much of literature's own "endurance beyond nation, and its worldly capacity to conjure up human community out of despair" as of migrant refuge and the powerplay of state refusal of refuge, via the 20th century's great writers of displacement.
[An] incandescent and admirably polemical new book ... Placeless People should help change conversations about humanitarianism, migration, citizenship, and democracy.
Magisterial.
Anybody seeking to understand the contemporary challenges faced by refugees, and the responses by nation states that view themselves as sovereign, will find in Placeless People clues as to how we got here and ideas as to what we ought to do next ... The book navigates contested themes from multiple viewpoints. In doing so, it illuminates historical and contemporary challenges to national distinctions, political communities and human rights.
Placeless People delves deeply into the philosophy of human rights but with easy prose and a structure that would give anyone pause when thinking about our times ... This small book makes a fast but thought provoking read.
Stonebridge offers a nuanced and complex interdisciplinary treatment of the problems of citizenship, statelessness, and mass displacement.
[A] deft and incisive book ... The canon of writers assembled is one of Placeless People's great strengths ... The contribution Stonebridge makes lies in her readings. It is with close engagement that she demonstrates the ability of novels, poems, plays, and journalism to move beyond the banalising morality inherent to the idea that literature is a locus for empathy.
This is a book about displacement but it offers us ways to feel at home despite these toxic and hateful times.
Lyndsey Stonebridge's Placeless People, whilst outwardly a study based in literary criticism and theory, works impressively through the wide-ranging implications of statelessness to explore the real meanings of citizenship and belonging through the eyes of some of the twentieth century's most innovative writers and thinkers ... Where this book distinguishes itself, for all scholars of placelessness, is its ability to move, through a sharplyfocussed discussion of some of the twentieth century's most renowned literary or philosophical voices, to offer insights into the ways in which, now as then,'[m]odern placelessness demonstrates how fragile everybody's place in the world is.
Lyndsey Stonebridge's excellent Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees is a welcome addition to this interdisciplinary field as well as to the broader field of twentieth-century literary and cultural studies.
Lyndsey Stonebridge's sensitive and assertive book succeeds on a range of levels. Placeless People combines careful thinking on the situation of refugees, engaged moral philosophy, and purposeful literary criticism ... Full of fascinating information, fresh perspectives, and important episodes recovered from history, Placeless People is a valuable read for those working on the injustices of forced displacement and statelessness today.

Notă biografică

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.