Mobile Narratives

Eleftheria Arapoglou is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California at Davis, US. Mónika Fodor is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Pécs, Hungary.Jopi Nyman is Professor of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Eastern Finland.

• Introduction Eleftheria Arapoglou, Mónika Fodor, and Jopi Nyman Part I: Travels In/Out 1. Tourism, Sustainable Development, and Ethnic Identity: A Critique Richard Sharpley 2. Between Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny: Spanish American Travel Narratives of Jacksonian America Astrid Haas 3. ‘The Politics of Location’: American Travel Discourse in Early Nineteenth Century Greece Smaragda Yemenedzi-Malathouni 4. The Rhetoric of Unreality: Travel Writing And Ethnography in Edith Wharton’s In Morocco Ágnes Zsofia Kovács 5. Narrative Trans-ethnicity in the Correspondence of John Xántus and Spencer Fullerton Baird Mónika Fodor Part II: Travelling Texts 6.Traveling Texts and Tropes: Oedipus in the Township, The Illiad in Australia, Judges in Haiti: Towards a Transcultural -Local Aesthetics Miki Flockenmann 7. ‘Can’t Films Be Therapeutic?’: Cinema, Psychoanalysis, And Zionism in Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir Nicholas Baer 8. Traveling across the Nation: Chinese Migration and the American Western Plays of the 1870s Zoe Detsi-Diamanti 9. Religious Syncretism, Iconography, and Trans-Ethnic Subjectivity Construction: The Role of the Virgin of Guadalupe in María Cristina Mena’s and Cherríe Moraga’s Literary Work Angelika Köhler Part III: Travellers Displaced 10. Hotel Hades Aritha Van Herk 11. Passports and Prayers: Relocating an Irish Religious Identity in Mary Anne Madden Sadlier’s Emigrant Novels Yvonne O’Keeffe 12. The Impossibility of Transporting Identity: The Representation of Diasporic Irishness in Transatlantic Irish Fiction 1860-1900 Lindsay Janssen 13. Intimations of Displacement in Irish and Galician Poetry Manuela Palacios 14. The Female Ethnic Writer's 'Re-Turn' to the Ancestral Hearth: Greece and Italy Revisited Theodora D. Patrona 15."I Have Seen the Future and It is Mongrel:" Time Travel, Race, and Music in Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing Monika Mueller Part IV: Transcultural Spaces in East and West 16. ‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Being’: Negotiating Hybridity in Post-Soviet Jewish American Narrative Jesper Reddig 17. Dybek’s Diaspora Tamas Dobozi 18. Stability and Mobility: Hyperterritoriality And Ethnic Intersections on Ivo Andric’s The Bridge on the Drina Andrew White 19. A Travelling Self with no Return Address: Anca Vlasopolos Ioana Luca