Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Introduction

PART ONE: CITIZENS

1 Citizenship and the English Novel in 1945

2 “A Rather Ungoverned Bringing Up”: Postwar Resistance and Displacement in The World My Wilderness

3 Not of National Importance: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Women’s Work, and the Mid-Century Historical Novel

4 Citizens of World Photography

PART TWO: VIOLATIONS

5 The Human and the Citizen in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent

6 Interventions: Haiti, Humanitarianism, and The Girls of Slender Means

7 Torture, Text, Human Rights: Beckett’s Comment c’est / How It Is and the Algerian War

8 Fictions of the Human in Postwar Japan

PART THREE: RIGHTS

9 Human Rights and Postwar Internationalism in The Third Man

10 Loving Revolutions: Reading Mixed Race at Mid-Century

11 Confessional Fictions: Truth and Reconciliation in the Cold War

12 Writing Like a State: On Caryl Phillips’s Foreigners

Works Cited

Contributors

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