Mobility, Place, and Displacement in French- And Italian-Speaking Literary Studies

Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives represents an exploration of the dynamic intersections between mobility, space, and literature. By focusing on walking as both a practice and a narrative device, the book illustrates how mobilities shape and reconfigure our experiences of space. Drawing from both literary and interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors engage with diverse themes, including urban flânerie, rural wanderings, migration, and queer spatialities. The research presented here shows how literary discourse mediates and constructs human relationships with space and place. Addressing with key theoretical movements such as the narrative, spatial, and mobilities turns, this book contributes to the recent humanities turn by advancing discussions within mobility studies, particularly in French and Italian contexts.

Adrien Frenay is Teaching Professor at Paris Nanterre University, France. He teaches mobilities for tourism, media communication and Rhetorics. His research focuses on fictional imaginations of spatial mobility Giulio Iacoli

Giulio Iacoli is Associate Professor at the University of Parma, Italy. His research interests include literary theory, geocriticism, cultural geography and queer theory.

Lucia Quaquarelli is Associate Professor at Paris Nanterre University, France, where she is the co-head of the CRPM, Centre de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires Multilingues. Her research focuses on the transformations of contemporary narrative, mobility and the cultural and political impact of translation.