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Trains, Literature, and Culture
Reading and Writing the Rails
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2011
Summary
Trains, Literature and Culture: Reading and Writing the Rails delves into the rich connections between rail travel and the creation of cultural products from short stories to novels, from photographs to travel guides, and from artistic manifestos of the avant-garde to Freud’s psychology. Each of the contributions engages in critical readings of textual or visual representations of trains across a wide spectrum of time periods and traditions—from English and American to Mexican, West African and European literary cultures. By turns trope, metaphor, and emblem of technological progress, these textual and visual representations of the train serve at times to index racial and gender inequalities, to herald the arrival of a nation’s independence, and at still others to evince the trauma of industrialization. In each instance, the figure of the train emerges as a complex narrative form engaged by artists who were “Reading & Writing the Rails” as a way of assessing the competing discursive investments of cultural modernity.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6560-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6562-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
248
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Trains, Literature and Culture No access
Chapter 01. Railroad Blues No access
Chapter 02. Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers on the Railroad No access
Chapter 03. Technology Transfer, the Railway, and Independence in Ousmane Sembène’s Les Bouts de bois de Dieu No access
Chapter 04. Futurist Trains No access
Chapter 05. Sublime Hieroglyphics No access
Chapter 06. Modernity, Anxiety, and the Development of a Popular Railway Landscape Aesthetic, 1809–1879 No access
Chapter 07. Mapping Memory through the Railway Network No access
Chapter 08. Killer Trains and Thrilling Travels No access
Chapter 09. Class and Counterfeiting during the Porfi riato No access
