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We the People? The United States and the Question of Rights.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (334 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3825379884
  • 9783825379889
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JC599 .W484 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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
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'
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
Contributors -- Backcover
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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

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'

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

MIRJA BEUTEL: 'The Sopranos' and Minority Rights: A Cosmopolitan Approach for the EFL Classroom -- Contributors -- Backcover

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