Mobilities, Literature, Culture. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marian Aguiar, Charlotte Mathieson, Lynne Pearce.
• Editors: Aguiar, Marian; Mathieson, Charlotte; Pearce, Lynne
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Mobilities, Literature, Culture Marian Aguiar, Charlotte Mathieson, and Lynne Pearce MOBILITY AND NATION 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 EMBODIED SUBJECTIVITIES 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 GEOPOLITICS OF MIGRATION 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 MOBILITY FUTURES 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (322 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Literature ; Literary studies: from c 1900; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Literary theory; Literature-Philosophy; Literature, Modern-20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030270728
• Related ISBNs: 9783030270711
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