Mobilities, Literature, Culture

Marian Aguiar is Associate Professor in the Literary and Cultural Studies Program, Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University, USA.  She is the author of Tracking Modernity: India’s Railway and the Culture of Mobility (2011) and Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora (2018).Charlotte Mathieson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature in the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Surrey, UK. She is the author of Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation (2015).Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University, UK. She is also Director for the Humanities at Lancaster’s Centre for Mobilities Research [CeMoRe].Her recent mobilities publications include Drivetime (2016) and Mobility, Memory and the Lifecourse (Palgrave 2019).

• 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.