Legislating Gender, Grammars of Race: Citizenship, Statelessness, and Velma Demerson’s Incorrigible
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https://doi.org/10.14288/cl.v0i223.186548Résumé
The violent legacies of modern citizenship continue to resurface in debates today about the values of birthright citizenship, belonging and statelessness. Velma Demerson’s Incorrigible, an autobiographical text about a young, white woman who is incarcerated and experimented on because she has a Chinese fiancé in 1939, returns us to the first half of the twentieth century, and reveals the paradoxes, and circular logic, of citizenship discourse in Canada.
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2015-08-25
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