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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.

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This is an inspiring collection whose chapters explore the thematic of the travelling body across a fascinating array of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present. The close readings lend important new insights to our understanding of human mobility and, as a consequence, the volume will appeal to those working in mobilities studies as well as literary scholars. -- Lynne Pearce, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University

This is an inspiring collection whose chapters explore the thematic of the travelling body across a fascinating array of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present. The close readings lend important new insights to our understanding of human mobility and, as a consequence, the volume will appeal to those working in mobilities studies as well as literary scholars. -- Lynne Pearce, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University This co-edited collection of essays stretches the research on the multiple intersections between body studies, migration and mobility studies in Anglophone literature and more generally speaking in the English-speaking world. Against the backdrop of a sanitary crisis that has shed a crude light on how somebodies have to stay put while others are forced to flee, this volume challenges our perceptions of how mobility, immobility, and everything in-between, is perceived, represented and interpreted. What emerges loud and clear is a poetics of corporeality at the crossroad of disciplines which contributes to a better understanding of the world we live in. -- Judith Misrahi-Barak, Associate Professor, English Department, Paul Valéry University of Montpellier

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

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