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Near the end of the Second World War, new ideas about citizenship, national identity, belonging, and rights emerged as the atrocities of the war - coupled with the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - spurred writers and citizens around the world to think about their responsibilities to their fellow man.Covering British authors and contemporary fiction by migrant writers publishing at mid-century, as well as some photography from the era, Around 1945 is a collection of essays that reveals how literary texts and cultural events modeled human rights issues such as dignity, freedom, sovereignty, and responsibility. Unified by an investigation of the human and cultural aspects of universal rights, these essays show that British writers tested the parameters of citizenship and rights in novelistic form. By imagining duties and rights of citizens in hypothetical contexts, these novels expanded on the legislated entitlements and obligations that make up civic and human identity. To this day the repercussions of 1945 continue to unfold in stories about statehood, refugees, humanitarianism, displacement, and national belonging. At the same time, novels continue to imagine the human person, equal in rights and dignity before the law, yet often compromised by the political exigencies of nation-states that do not recognize legal, political, or human rights.Tracing the rippling consequences of the Second World War from 1945 through the Cold War and into the present, Around 1945 is an extraordinarily rich volume that will alter our perception of pre- and post-war British literature.
English fiction --- Literature and society --- Citizenship in literature. --- Human rights in literature. --- Law in literature. --- Roman anglais --- Littérature et sociét --- Citoyenneté dans la littérature --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) dans la littérature --- Droit dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Human rights in literature --- Duty in literature. --- Citizenship in literature --- Law in literature --- Duty in literature --- History and criticism
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Zuylen, van, Belle --- Duty in literature --- Ethics in literature --- Morale dans la littérature --- Charrière, Isabelle de, --- Ethics --- Charriere, Isabelle de --- Morale dans la littérature --- Charrière, Isabelle de, --- Didactic literature, French --- Women and literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Zélide, --- Zuylen, Belle de, --- Zuylen, Belle van, --- Charrière, --- Charrière, Belle de, --- Tuyll, Belle de, --- De Charrière, Isabelle, --- De La Tour, --- La Tour, --- Charrière, Isabelle-Agnès-Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken van Zuylen de, --- Tuyll van Serooskerken van Zuylen de Charrière, Isabelle-Agnès-Elisabeth van, --- Serooskerken van Zuylen de Charrière, Isabelle-Agnès-Elisabeth van Tuyll van, --- Zuylen de Charrière, Isabelle-Agnès-Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken van, --- Charrière, Isabella Agneta van Tuyll de, --- Ethics. --- Belle de zuylen --- Charriere (isabelle van tuyll van serooskerken van zuylen, dame de), femme de lettres, 1740-1805
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