Article ID: CBB384275911

A Parallax Reality: Shaping the Present in Paul Auster's Moon Palace and In the Country of Last Things (June 2022)

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Ira Hansen (Author)


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Volume: 12
Issue: 2
Pages: 35-46


Publication Date: June 2022
Edition Details: Special Section -- Unruly Landscapes: Mobility, Transience, and Transformation
Language: English

Engaging with the US author Paul Auster's fiction, the article explores how the stories his characters tell, in order to survive traumatic experiences, move them across their urban landscapes. Focusing on Auster's Moon Palace (1989) and In the Country of Last Things (1987), the article shows how the mobility of the main characters’ stories opens a parallax view, which reveals the past as an integral part of the experience of the present moment and the negotiation of trauma.

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Article Margherita Cisani; Laura Lo Presti; Lynne Pearce; Giada Peterle; Chiara Rabbiosi (2022) Introduction - Unruly Landscapes: Mobility, Transience, and Transformation (pt.2). Transfers (pp. 3-7). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Floyd-Wilson, Mary
Mom, Gijs
Oldenziel, Ruth
Andreas Nyblom
Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna
Jan Ploeger
Journals
Transfers
Science, Technology, and Human Values
The Journal of Transport History
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Routledge
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
University of Rochester Press
Concepts
Science and technology studies (STS)
Mobility
Embodiment; corporeality
Literature
Ethnography
Land transportation
People
Heidegger, Martin
Luud Schimmelpennink
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Africa
Netherlands
United States
Romania
India
Mexico
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