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1 online resource (334 p.) |
Series |
American Studies - A Monograph Series ; v.309 |
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American Studies - A Monograph Series
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Contents |
Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Contents -- IRINA BRITTNER, SABINE N. MEYER, AND PETER SCHNECK: Introduction -- The Social and Historical Reality of Rights in the U.S. -- LETI VOLPP: Refugees Welcome? -- BLAIR L.M. KELLEY: Unabated Protest: American Citizenship and African American Resistance to Jim Crow Segregation -- SUSAN N. HERMAN: On Balancing Liberty and National Security -- MICHAEL DREYER: Civil Rights from the Bench? The U.S. Supreme Court between Originalism and the Living Constitution |
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CURD BENJAMIN KNÜPFER: Technological Innovation and Bottom-Up Democracy: Acknowledging the Crises and Re-Affirming the Research Agenda -- Literature and the Question of Rights -- CHAD LUCK: Debt Reckoning: Equity, Property, Bartleby -- KATRIN HORN: Right or Obligation? Privacy in Henry James' 'The Bostonians' -- JULIUS GREVE: Ventriloquism Against the Copyright of the Concept: Authorial Suspension and Modernist Perfomativity -- SEBASTIAN M. HERRMANN: Law as Algorithm: Legal Discourse, the Data Imaginary and the 1839 'American Slavery as It Is' |
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INA BATZKE: Contesting Traditional Imaginaries of Citizenship: José Ángel N.'s 'Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant' -- KERSTIN KNOPF: The Gendered Prison: Female Bodies and the Carceral Space in American Women's Prison Literature -- Negotiating Rights in Popular Culture -- KATJA KANZLER: Female Lawyer Figures in Contemporary TV Legal Drama: Embodiment and Gender in Figurations of the Legal Process -- JOSEF RAAB: The Disenfranchised Latin@ Alien in 'The X-Files' and Beyond -- INGRID GESSNER: Picturing Ebola: Photography as an Instrument of Biopolitical (In)Justice |
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MIRJA BEUTEL: 'The Sopranos' and Minority Rights: A Cosmopolitan Approach for the EFL Classroom -- Contributors -- Backcover |
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Description based upon print version of record |
Subject |
Human rights -- United States
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Civil rights -- United States.
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Human rights in literature.
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Human rights in mass media.
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
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Civil rights
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Human rights
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Human rights in literature
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Human rights in mass media
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Meyer, Sabine N
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Schneck, Peter
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ISBN |
3825379884 |
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9783825379889 |
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