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

"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" Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Why Focus on “Corporeal Mobility”? What the Study of Anglophone Literature Can Tell Us about “Corporeal Mobility” Corporeality and Mobility in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Literature Notes Works Cited Part I: Other(ed) and Marginalized Bodies in Motion Chapter 1: Lucy’s Transgressive Moves in Lady Audley’s Secret Introduction Lucy’s Body on the Rail Lucy’s Movement and Empowerment Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter 2: Through Time and Space: Traveling Bodies in Archaeological Fiction Penetrating the Imperial Body: A Journey in Time and Space The Astral Body: Mummies in Travel The Living Dead: Regression and Degeneration Notes Works Cited Chapter 3: “Doomed with Motion”: Transient Bodies in Light in August Notes Works Cited Part II: Disabled Bodies, Ailing Bodies, and mobility Chapter 4: The Shelleys’ Tried Bodies in Their Travel Literature: Demystification and Mythmaking Shelley’s Frail Constitution: Seasickness, Coach Jogging, and Bodily Fatigue Romantic Sensations and Quixotism Death: the Final Stage of Traveling Bodies Conclusion Works Cited Chapter 5: Representing the Sick Male Body in David Livingstone’s Final Manuscripts (1865–1873) Exertion and Muscular Christianity Martyrdom and Reflexivity Motionlessness: Falling Behind and Being Carried The Leaky Body and Male Identity Notes Works Cited Chapter 6: Disability and the Modalities of Displacement in the Early Fiction of J. M. Coetzee Introduction The Politics of Disablement Displacement, Confinement, and Ableism Conclusion: Displacing Ableist Discourses Notes Works Cited Part III: Reconceptualizing Mobile Bodies in Transnational Spaces Chapter 7: Writing Away from the Main: The Traveling Ways of Jamaica Kincaid’s Unruly Prose The Body Unbound Spare Parts, or the Unruly Paths of Jamaica Kincaid’s Body/Text Knitting and the Fugue, or the Question of Composition Twoness, or the “Finality of It All” Notes Works Cited Chapter 8: Wilson Harris’s Resurrected Bodies Human Bodies in Motion: Crossing the Frontiers between the Dead and the Living The Middle Passage Revisited: Dancing Out of the Slavery Bond The Harrisian Texts as Bodies in Motion Bodies in Exile Emergence of a New Type of Fiction Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter 9: Immobility, Female Corporeality, and Self in the Transnational Space in Jude Dibia’s Unbridled “[A]pprehended and arrested”: The Immobilization of Indocile Bodies by the Nigerian State Patriarchy and the Bridled Female Body A Transnational and Transformational Odyssey au Féminin Notes Works Cited 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 Introduction Book I: Coming Home Book II: Colliding Worlds Book III: World (Un) / Breakable Notes Works Cited Chapter 11: Mobility and Shame: The Refugee and the Terrorist in Mohsin Hamid and Jhumpa Lahiri Shame and the Figure of the Refugee Shame and the Figure of the Terrorist Notes Works Cited Chapter 12: Impossible Journey Home: From Compliant to Resistant Bodies, an Analysis of Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire Traveling in the Context of the War on Terror Statelessness and Homelessness: The Unburied Body as a Cipher of Intertwined Traumas and Injustices Notes Works Cited Index About the Editors About the Contributors