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E-book The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits

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To be an airline passenger in transit is to move through states without permanently adopting them. The very legal nature of a transit lounge embodies this perfectly. When one is in tran-sit, one does not pass through immigration and enter the legal boundaries of a nation-state. The strange nature of transit is best exemplified by its failures — the case of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, for example, who lived in Charles de Gaulle airport Terminal One for 17 years (1988–2006) after leaving Iran. Nasseri was separated from his refugee documentation while in the process of travelling to the UK to claim asylum, and found himself in a legal grey zone. Having legally entered the airport and being unable to legally leave it, his prolonged state of transit became famous, known to many of us through Tom Hanks’s character in Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film The Terminal. Arrested and enabled motions are lenses through which we view the complications of a process that is seamless when viewed post facto. Only disrup-tion — be it Nasseri’s extreme experience or thoughtful schol-arly reflection — reveals the artificiality of completion.Eileen Joy and I were both drawn to transit lounges as admir-ers, quasi-spaces so frequently encountered and yet so unusual when compared to other experiences of space and time. This led us to a mutual appreciation of intermediate motions and transi-tions between states, the flows and conduits proposed by the sociologist John Urry in the articulation of his mobile sociology thesis. In his seminal essay, Urry proposes that The appreciation of texts and transits — their establishment, their reconfiguring effect, their myriad reconnections — in-spired the title of this volume and its antecedent roundtables athe 2014 New Chaucer Society congress in Reykjavik, Iceland. As medievalists at a conference focused upon the age of Chau-cer, we and our participants reflected on the manner in which the strange intermediate states, transactions, motions, and emo-tions of being in a place of transition could be applied to medie-val literature.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

800 SMI t

Penerbit

New York : Punctum books., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

138 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781947447370

Klasifikasi

800

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Literature

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

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