Description
Book SynopsisMobility and Corporeality in 19th and 21st Century Anglophone Literature: Bodies in Motion aims at exploring the intersection of literary, mobility and body studies in Anglophone literature from the 19th century to the 21st century. Corporeal mobility includes a variety of mobile bodies that have long been othered and marginalised due to issues pertaining to gender, disability, race, and class. Yet there is a relative lack of academic work on it, despite the fact that Anglophone literature has increasingly portrayed the circulation of characters, objects, and information since the 19th century, echoing the many types of mobility that have occurred through processes of colonisation, decolonisation and globalisation. This book, therefore, discusses the ways in which literatures produced in the English-speaking world challenge normative depictions of bodies on the move and reconceptualise them by making corporeality an essential feature of movement across the world.
Trade ReviewThis is an inspiring collection whose chapters explore the thematic of the travelling body across a fascinating array of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present. The close readings lend important new insights to our understanding of human mobility and, as a consequence, the volume will appeal to those working in mobilities studies as well as literary scholars.
-- Lynne Pearce, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Jaine Chemmachery and Bhawana Jain
Part I: Challenging Normative Discourses and Representations of Mobile Bodies
Chapter 1: Lucy's Transgressive Moves in Lady Audley's Secret
Sun Jai Kim
Chapter 2: Through Time and Space: Travelling Bodies in Archaeological Fiction
Nolwenn Corriou
Chapter 3: “Doomed with Motion”: Transient Bodies in Light of August
Solveig Dunkel
Chapter 4: The Shelleys' Tried Bodies in their Travel Literature: Demystification and Mythmaking
Fabien Desset
Chapter 5: Representing the Sick Male Body in David Livingstone’s Final Manuscripts (1865-1873)
Guillaume Didier
Chapter 6: Disability and the Modalities of Displacement in the Early Fiction of J.M. Coetzee
Pawel Wojtas
Part II: Reconceptualising Corporeal Mobility in Contemporary Times
Chapter 7: Writing Away from the Main: The Travelling Ways of Jamaica Kincaid's Unruly Prose
Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika
Chapter 8: Wilson Harris’s Resurrected Bodies
Fabienne Franvil
Chapter 9: Immobility, Female Corporeality and Self in the Transnational Space in Jude Dibia's Unbridled
Cédric Courtois
Chapter 10: [T]raveler without a Country - Wandering Bodies in Patricia Jabbeh Wesley’s When the Wanderers Come Home
Maureen Fielding
Chapter 11: Mobility and Shame: The Refugee and the Terrorist in Mohsin Hamid and Jhumpa Lahiri
Neela Cathelain
Chapter 12: Impossible Journey Home: From Compliant to Resistant Bodies. An Analysis of Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
Sandrine Soukaï
