Mobilities, Literature, Culture

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Aguiar, Marian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mathieson, Charlotte (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pearce, Lynne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
• Θέματα: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Literature .; Literary Theory.; Contemporary Literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.