Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives

This book analyzes contemporary Anglophone road narratives from a transcultural perspective. By bringing together texts set in Australia, Africa, Canada, Europe, Aotearoa/New Zealand, India, and the US, it grapples with the road narrative as a global genre as opposed to a traditionally American one. In so doing, it conceptualizes the genre in a deterritorialized manner and highlights engagement with transcultural phenomena through ten close readings. Building on literary mobility studies, the book interrogates the poetics and politics of automobility, as well as the affordances and limits of this form of mobility. It also contributes to larger debates concerning the role of technologies and infrastructures under global modernity. 

Sommario

1. Ignition.- 2. Narrating the Road in the TwentyFirst Century.- 3. Automobile Modernities.- 4. Spaces of/in Transition.- 5. Identities on the Move.- 6. You Have Reached Your Destination.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michelle Stork
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.05.2026
• EAN: 9783032160560
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3216056-0
• Pagine: 282
• Illustrazioni: IV, 282 p.
• Serie: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Europa, Amerika, Kulturwissenschaften, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, World Literature, European Literature, American Culture, Roads, Australien und Neuseeland / Aotearoa, Mobility Studies, Automobility, Literature and Mobility, Australasian Literature, Road Narratives, Road Novels