Home reconsidered in transnational fiction

Walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange

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ID5716737
AuthorsJun Hu (0000-0001-6782-3501, Beijing Language and Culture University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume19
Issue4
Pages609-624
Publication date2024-07-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMobilities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17450101.2024.2313733
OpenAlexW4392000449
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited54

This article is greatly inspired by the mobilities paradigm in its investigation of the transnational novel Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita by paying attention to a particular form of mobility, walking, practiced by the marginalized migrants in the landscapes. It argues that the novel reveals walking firstly as an alternative mobility for those migrants to claim for the visibility of the overlooked landscapes where they inhabit; secondly as an imposed form of mobility on the migrants, who perceive mobility injustice in the construction of the taken for granted landscape, the freeway; and thirdly as an oppositional mobility to be used by the migrants to claim landscape and home. In this way, transnational fiction would enrich the studies on walking by drawing attention to the connection between walking, marginalized migrants and landscapes, taking into consideration mobility (in)justice; it would also contribute to the exploration of various forms of oppositional mobilities; but most important of all, it would add one more layer to the discussion about mobility by connecting the exploration of mobility to that of landscape construction and finally to the envisioning of a new approach to home

Economic geography · Geography · Injustice · Mobilities · Social science · Sociology · Urban landscape · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban Transport and Accessibility

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