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Author : Marian Aguiar
Release Date : 25 September 2019
Publisher : Springer Nature
Genre : Literary Criticism
Pages : 322
ISBN 13 : 9783030270728

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Book excerpt: This is the first book dedicated to literary and cultural scholars’ engagement with mobilities scholarship. As such, the volume both advances new theoretical approaches to the study of culture and furthers the recent “humanities turn” in mobilities studies. The book’s scholarship is deeply informed by cultural geography’s vision of a mobilised reconceptualisation of space and place, but also by the contribution of literary scholars in articulating questions of travel, technologies of transport, (post)colonialism and migration through a close engagement with textual materials. A comprehensive introduction maps pre-histories and emerging directions of this exciting interdisciplinary endeavor while taking up the theoretical and methodological challenges of the burgeoning subfield. Contributions range across geographical and disciplinary boundaries to address questions of embodied subjectivities, mobility and the nation, geopolitics of migration, and mobilities futures.

Mobilities Literature Culture

Author : Marian Aguiar,Charlotte Mathieson,Lynne Pearce
Publisher : Springer Nature
Genre : Literary Criticism
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This is the first book dedicated to literary and cultural scholars’ engagement with mobilities scholarship. As such, the volume both advances new theoretical approaches to the study of culture and furthers the recent “humanities turn” in mobilities studies. The book’s scholarship is deeply informed by cultural geography’s vision ...

Mobility Memory and the Lifecourse in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture

Author : Lynne Pearce
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
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This book explores the formative role of mobilities in the production of our close relationships, proposing that the tracks—both literal and figurative— we lay down in the process play a crucial role in generating and sustaining intimacy. Working with diaries, journals and literary texts from the mid- to late-twentieth ...

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Author : Roger Bromley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives—cinematic, photographic, and literary—produced by, with, or about refugees and migrants. The book explores refugee journeys, asylum-seeking, trafficking, and deportation as well as ...

Cultural Mobilities Between Africa and the Caribbean

Author : Birgit Englert,Barbara Gföllner,Sigrid Thomsen
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Social Science
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This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of Mobility Studies to tease out the shared experiences between these highly diverse parts of the world. Despite their heterogeneity in terms of cultures, languages, and political and economic histories, the connections between the African continent ...

Cultural Mobility

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Cultural Mobility offers a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. It has emerged under the very distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt and represents a new way of thinking about culture and cultures with which scholars in many disciplines will need to engage....

Tracking Modernity

Author : Marian Aguiar
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Genre : Social Science
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The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity....

Spatial Turns

Author : Jaimey Fisher,Barbara Caroline Mennel
Publisher : Rodopi
Genre : Literary Criticism
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The phrase “spatial turns” signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the ...

Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility

Author : Arianna Dagnino
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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In Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility, Arianna Dagnino analyzes a new type of literature emerging from artists' increased movement and cultural flows spawned by globalization. This ""transcultural"" literature is produced by authors who write across cultural and national boundaries and who transcend in their lives ...

Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature

Author : Emma Short
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
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This book considers the complex ways in which the hotel functions to express the shifting experiences of modernity in the works of such authors as Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, and Elizabeth Bowen. The text contributes to the critical debates on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature concerning ...

Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures

Author : Anna-Leena Toivanen
Publisher : BRILL
Genre : Literary Criticism
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In Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms, Anna-Leena Toivanen combines mobilities research, postcolonial literary studies, and theories of cosmopolitanism to explore the representations and often complex intertwinements of different mobility practices and cosmopolitanisms in contemporary Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts....

Mobility Spatiality and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse

Author : Christian Beck
Publisher : Springer Nature
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Mobility, Space, and Resistance: Transformative Spatiality in Literary and Political Discourse draws from various disciplines—such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought—to posit the productive capabilities of literature in political action and at the same time show how literary art can resist the imposition and ...

Unsettled

Author : Patricia Fumerton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Genre : History
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Migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and seventeenth- century England. In fact, by 1650, half of England’s rural population consisted of homeless and itinerant laborers. Unsettled is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the everyday lives of these dispossessed people. Patricia Fumerton offers an expansive portrait ...

American Mobilities

Author : Julia Leyda
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Genre : Social Science
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American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic," referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of ...

Mobility Space and Culture

Author : Peter Merriman
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Social Science
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In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman provides an important and timely contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, focusing on the spacing and timing of practices of mobility. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon theoretical and empirical work from sociology, geography, mobility studies, cultural studies, ...

Mobility in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature in English

Author : Magdalena Pfalzgraf
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Emigration and immigration in literature
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Introduction -- Zimbabwean Mobility Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century -- Spatial Orders and Mobility in a Shifting National Landscape -- The Chronotope of the Third Chimurenga -- The Interplay between Mobility and Stasis -- Intra-Urban Mobilities -- "Everything moved at a frenzied pace": Movement and Stasis in Valerie Tagwira's The ...