Chambers, Matthew;
(2024)
‘Liberty to bend a piece of wire into a space sculpture’: Stefan Themerson, Kurt Schwitters, and the rhetoric around rights and refugees.
Literature & History
, 33
(1)
pp. 3-15.
10.1177/03061973241245755.
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Abstract
PEN International's 1948 charter and its accession to NGO status made it one of the most globally recognisable institutions promoting and securing freedom of expression for writers and artists as a fundamental human right. PEN's transition from dinner club to NGO involved a post-war reckoning with how to respond to institutional abuses of power and how to secure rights for those who had lost the traditional protections of the state. George Orwell and Stefan Themerson, writing on the 1944 PEN conference, offer insight into the political challenges PEN faced after the Second World War regarding state power and the rights of refugees.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘Liberty to bend a piece of wire into a space sculpture’: Stefan Themerson, Kurt Schwitters, and the rhetoric around rights and refugees |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/03061973241245755 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/03061973241245755 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Human rights, post-war literature, NGOs, PEN International |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10193562 |
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