Mobility and Corporeality in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Literature

Bodies in Motion

Jaine Chemmachery, Bhawana Jain

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781978795730
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Mobility 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Other(ed) and Marginalized Bodies in Motion
• Chapter 1: Lucy’s Transgressive Moves in Lady Audley’s Secret
• Chapter 2: Through Time and Space: Traveling Bodies in Archaeological Fiction
• Chapter 3: “Doomed with Motion”: Transient Bodies in Light in August
• Part II: Disabled Bodies, Ailing Bodies, and mobility
• Chapter 4: The Shelleys’ Tried Bodies in Their Travel Literature: Demystification and Mythmaking
• Chapter 5: Representing the Sick Male Body in David Livingstone’s Final Manuscripts (1865–1873)
• Chapter 6: Disability and the Modalities of Displacement in the Early Fiction of J. M. Coetzee
• Part III: Reconceptualizing Mobile Bodies in Transnational Spaces
• Chapter 7: Writing Away from the Main: The Traveling Ways of Jamaica Kincaid’s Unruly Prose
• Chapter 8: Wilson Harris’s Resurrected Bodies
• Chapter 9: Immobility, Female Corporeality, and Self in the Transnational Space in Jude Dibia’s Unbridled
• Part IV: Migrant Bodies, Unstable Identities, and Subjectivities in Times of Crises
• Chapter 10: “[T]raveler / without a Country”: Wandering Bodies in Patricia Jabbeh Wesley’s When the Wanderers Come Home
• Chapter 11: Mobility and Shame: The Refugee and the Terrorist in Mohsin Hamid and Jhumpa Lahiri
• Chapter 12: Impossible Journey Home: From Compliant to Resistant Bodies, an Analysis of Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors