Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on a Legal Concept

In the early twenty-first century, the concept of citizenship is more contested than ever. As refugees set out to cross the Mediterranean, European nation-states refer to "cultural integrity" and "immigrant inassimilability," revealing citizenship to be much more than a legal concept. The contributors to this volume take an interdisciplinary approach to considering how cultures of citizenship are being envisioned and interrogated in literary and cultural (con)texts. Through this framework, they attend to the tension between the citizen and its spectral others - a tension determined by how a country defines difference at a given moment

March 7, 1946

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The Reserve Advocate, 06-10-1922

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Las Vegas Optic, 04-18-1913

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The Vegetarian, A Monthly Magazine published to advocate Wholesome Living. Vol. IV.

This is book an endorsement of the vegetarian lifestyle.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/foodiesguide-1890/1005/thumbnail.jp

Of the Last Verses in the Book: Old Age, Caregiving, and Early Modern Literature

This dissertation examines the representation of old age in the textual representations of the centenarian Thomas Parr, including verse by John Taylor; in The Old Law by Thomas Middleton (and others); and in four plays by William Shakespeare, King Lear, As You Like It, and 1 and 2 Henry IV. This examination shows how old age in the early modern period exceeds chronological and numerical definitions and is instead a contested social construction. By historicizing the representation of early modern old age and also by tracking its changing representation throughout Shakespearean reception history, this dissertation argues that depictions of older people are contingent on a period’s cultural and political environment. It argues that old age in early modern drama is forged within relationships between older people and their family, community, and country, and shows how caregiving within these relationships is a central concern. I argue that the negotiation over where to locate care for older people—whether within the family or in the broader early modern network of affective relationships—unfolds in the plays’ reception histories, which reflect cultural preoccupations with notions of dependency, caregiving, the concept of old age as a “second childhood,” and the agency of older people. The chapters address the question of who is responsible for the support of older people, how old people are figured as ablebodied or as disabled by their state, how the older person’s voice and body are seen as either agentic or powerless, and how older people are symbolically linked to their country’s past and future

2009, UMaine News Press Releases

This is a catalog of press releases put out by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications between January 2, 2009 and December 30, 2009