"Passport, please": legal, literary, and critical fictions of identity.

From: College Literature | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: Higgins, Lesley; Leps, Marie-Christine | Copyright information

A deeper examination of the passport's role led to the elevation of its importance from just a mere identification document needed for security to a power-knowledge matrix status. Based on historical accounts of its emergence in World War I to the critical discussion of perspectives for this legal document by authors such as Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Michael Ondaatje, it was proven that the passport has helped build communities, citizenship, nationalism and identity in both...

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