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Marian Aguiar is Associate Professor in the Literary and Cultural Studies Program, Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She is the author of Tracking Modernity: India's Railway and the Culture of Mobility (2011) and Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora (2018).
Charlotte Mathieson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature in the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Surrey, UK. She is the author of Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation (2015).
Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University, UK. She is also Director for the Humanities at Lancaster's Centre for Mobilities Research [CeMoRe].Her recent mobilities publications include Drivetime (2016) and Mobility, Memory and the Lifecourse (Palgrave 2019).
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the "mobilities turn" in literary and cultural studies
Creates a dialogue between mobilities scholarship and modernism and postcolonialism
Features timely essays that examine national mobilities, migration, embodiment, globalization, and biopolitics
1. Introduction: Mobilities, Literature, Culture, Marian Aguiar, Charlotte Mathieson, and Lynne Pearce.- 2. Railing against Apartheid: Staffrider, Township Trains, and Racialised Mobility in South Africa, Sarah Gibson.- 3. "Stationary Trivialities": Contrasting Representations of the American Motel in Vladimir Nabokov and Jack Kerouac, Elsa Court.- 4. Mobilising Affective Brutality: Death Tourism and the Ecstasy of Postmemory in Contemporary American Culture, Pavlina Radia.- 5. Mobility, Attentiveness and Sympathy in E. M. Forster's Howards End, Nour Dakkak.- 6. Narrative Senses of Perspective and Rhythm: Mobilising Subjectivity with Werther and Effi Briest, Roman Kabelik.- 7. Running (In) Your City, Kai Syng Tan.- 8. Migrant Labour, Immobility and Invisibility in Literature on the Arab Gulf States, Nadeen Dakkak.- 9. "Flotsam of Humanity": Bodies, Borders, and Futures Deferred, Mike Lehman.- 10. Cycling and Narrative Structure: H. G. Wells's The Wheels of Chance and Maurice Leblanc's Voici des Ailes, Una Brogan.- 11. Autonomous Vehicles: From Science Fiction to Sustainable Future, Robert Braun.- 12. Science Fiction Cinema and the Road Movie: Case Studies in the Estranged Mobile Gaze, Neil Archer.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
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Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
Medium: | Buch |
Seiten: | 340 |
Reihe: | Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture |
Inhalt: |
xviii
322 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 13 farbige Illustr. 322 p. 14 illus. 13 illus. in color. |
ISBN-13: | 9783030270711 |
ISBN-10: | 3030270718 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | HC runder Rücken kaschiert |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Redaktion: |
Aguiar, Marian
Pearce, Lynne Mathieson, Charlotte |
Herausgeber: | Marian Aguiar/Charlotte Mathieson/Lynne Pearce |
Auflage: | 1st ed. 2019 |
Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture |
Maße: | 216 x 153 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Marian Aguiar (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.10.2019 |
Gewicht: | 0,553 kg |
Marian Aguiar is Associate Professor in the Literary and Cultural Studies Program, Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She is the author of Tracking Modernity: India's Railway and the Culture of Mobility (2011) and Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora (2018).
Charlotte Mathieson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature in the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Surrey, UK. She is the author of Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation (2015).
Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University, UK. She is also Director for the Humanities at Lancaster's Centre for Mobilities Research [CeMoRe].Her recent mobilities publications include Drivetime (2016) and Mobility, Memory and the Lifecourse (Palgrave 2019).
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the "mobilities turn" in literary and cultural studies
Creates a dialogue between mobilities scholarship and modernism and postcolonialism
Features timely essays that examine national mobilities, migration, embodiment, globalization, and biopolitics
1. Introduction: Mobilities, Literature, Culture, Marian Aguiar, Charlotte Mathieson, and Lynne Pearce.- 2. Railing against Apartheid: Staffrider, Township Trains, and Racialised Mobility in South Africa, Sarah Gibson.- 3. "Stationary Trivialities": Contrasting Representations of the American Motel in Vladimir Nabokov and Jack Kerouac, Elsa Court.- 4. Mobilising Affective Brutality: Death Tourism and the Ecstasy of Postmemory in Contemporary American Culture, Pavlina Radia.- 5. Mobility, Attentiveness and Sympathy in E. M. Forster's Howards End, Nour Dakkak.- 6. Narrative Senses of Perspective and Rhythm: Mobilising Subjectivity with Werther and Effi Briest, Roman Kabelik.- 7. Running (In) Your City, Kai Syng Tan.- 8. Migrant Labour, Immobility and Invisibility in Literature on the Arab Gulf States, Nadeen Dakkak.- 9. "Flotsam of Humanity": Bodies, Borders, and Futures Deferred, Mike Lehman.- 10. Cycling and Narrative Structure: H. G. Wells's The Wheels of Chance and Maurice Leblanc's Voici des Ailes, Una Brogan.- 11. Autonomous Vehicles: From Science Fiction to Sustainable Future, Robert Braun.- 12. Science Fiction Cinema and the Road Movie: Case Studies in the Estranged Mobile Gaze, Neil Archer.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
---|---|
Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
Medium: | Buch |
Seiten: | 340 |
Reihe: | Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture |
Inhalt: |
xviii
322 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 13 farbige Illustr. 322 p. 14 illus. 13 illus. in color. |
ISBN-13: | 9783030270711 |
ISBN-10: | 3030270718 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | HC runder Rücken kaschiert |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Redaktion: |
Aguiar, Marian
Pearce, Lynne Mathieson, Charlotte |
Herausgeber: | Marian Aguiar/Charlotte Mathieson/Lynne Pearce |
Auflage: | 1st ed. 2019 |
Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture |
Maße: | 216 x 153 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Marian Aguiar (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.10.2019 |
Gewicht: | 0,553 kg |