Titlebook: Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism; Patricia García,Anna-Leena Toivanen Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Autho

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Space, Mobility, and Belonging: Finding One’s Way Through Pre-Apartheid Johannesburgof fiction, . by Paton (2002) and . by Abrahams (1989). Recently, postcolonial literary criticism has increasingly employed mobility studies theories to inquire into the intricate ways in which people define themselves through mobility. The narratives analyzed here use (im)mobility as a spatializing

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Urban Ambivalence: Work and Home at Delhi’s Margins work have responded to systemic changes occurring in cities of this region. Focusing on Delhi, a city shrouded in construction dust for nearly three decades now, the chapter reads Aman Sethi’s . (2011) and Mridula Koshy’s . (2016) as two recent—but not rare—literary reflections on the often uncontr

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Making a Pause in Street Life: Not Moving as an Art Practiceanent art object and an ephemeral action require stopping, interacting, reflecting, contemplating, and interpreting their meanings. This is particularly true for the human body standing still, forcing us to pay attention not only to the space around us but also to the entire social and political con

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Alienation, Abjection and the Mobile Postcolonial City: Public Transport in Ousmane Sembène’s “Niiwaese author Ousmane Sembène, and the novel . (1994), by the Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera. Featuring protagonists carrying the corpse of their dead child on a bus, both texts invest a bus ride with alienating and abject meanings that are repeatedly contrasted with more banal and everyday experiences

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Moving Away and Traveling Toward: Urban Mobility in Aminatta Forna’s Autobiographical Writingerent modes of transport in Aminatta Forna’s memoir . and her essay collection .. Autobiographical writing exists in between dichotomies such as truth vs. fiction, self vs. other, and the narrator vs. the persona narrated, and they often emerge through various forms of mobility and its connection wi

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