Mobility and Corporeality in 19th and 21st Century Anglophone Literature: Bodies in Motion challenges normative depictions of bodies on the move by focusing on marginalized and “othered” mobile bodies, and reconceptualises corporeal mobility for our contemporary times. This book defines “mobility” as processes such as colonization, decolonization, and globalization.

Mobility and Corporeality in 19^th and 21^st 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.

Introduction

Jaine Chemmachery and Bhawana Jain

PART I: OTHER(ED) AND MARGINALIZED BODIES IN MOTION

Chapter 1: Lucy's Transgressive Moves in Lady Audley's Secret

Sun Jai Kim

Chapter 2: Through Time and Space: Travelling Bodies in Archaeological Fiction

Nolwenn Corriou

Chapter 3: “Doomed with Motion”: Transient Bodies in Light of August

Solveig Dunkel

PART II: DISABLED BODIES, AILING BODIES, AND MOBILITY

Chapter 4: The Shelleys' Tried Bodies in their Travel Literature: Demystification and Mythmaking

Fabien Desset

Chapter 5: Representing the Sick Male Body in David Livingstone’s Final Manuscripts (1865-1873)

Guillaume Didier

Chapter 6: Disability and the Modalities of Displacement in the Early Fiction of J.M. Coetzee

Pawel Wojtas

PART III: RECONCEPTUALIZING MOBILE BODIES IN TRANSNATIONAL SPACES

Chapter 7: Writing Away from the Main: The Travelling Ways of Jamaica Kincaid's Unruly Prose

Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika

Chapter 8: Wilson Harris’s Resurrected Bodies

Fabienne Franvil

Chapter 9: Immobility, Female Corporeality and Self in the Transnational Space in Jude Dibia's Unbridled

Cédric Courtois

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

Maureen Fielding

Chapter 11: Mobility and Shame: The Refugee and the Terrorist in Mohsin Hamid and Jhumpa Lahiri

Neela Cathelain

Chapter 12: Impossible Journey Home: From Compliant to Resistant Bodies. An Analysis of Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire

Sandrine Soukaï