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Dr. Michelle Stork's monograph Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives has just been published as part of the series Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture by Palgrave Macmillan.

Transcultural Automobilities 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.

In short, Transcultural Automobilities examines the myriad forms road narratives take across diverse geographical settings. It applies literary studies tools to mobility concepts and thereby connects literary, mobility and transcultural approaches.

You can get off 20% with the code PALAUT.

Feel free to contact m.stork[@]em.uni-frankfurt.de for more information. Please also share the book with any interested colleagues and students.