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

Jaine Chemmacheryis senior lecturer in postcolonial literatures at Sorbonne Université. Bhawana Jain is assistant professor at the University of Angers.

Introduction

Jaine Chemmachery and Bhawana Jain

Part I: Challenging Normative Discourses and Representations of Mobile Bodies

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

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 II: Reconceptualising Corporeal Mobility in Contemporary Times

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

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