Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Transnational Railway Cultures

Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art

Edited by: Benjamin Fraser and Steven D. Spalding

Volume 6 in the series Explorations in Mobility

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789209198

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About this book

Since the advent of train travel, railways have compressed space and crossed national boundaries to become transnational icons, evoking hope, dread, progress, or obsolescence in different cultural domains. Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

Author / Editor information

Benjamin Fraser is Professor of Spanish in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and co-editor of Trains, Mobility and Culture (2012) and Trains, Literature and Culture (2012).

Steven D. Spalding is an Independent Scholar with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and a D.E.A. from the Université de Paris VIII. He is editor of the Transfers special section on Railways and Urban Cultures (2014) and co-editor of the books Trains, Mobility and Culture (2012) and Trains, Literature and Culture (2012).

Benjamin Fraser is Professor of Spanish in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and co-editor of Trains, Mobility and Culture (2012) and Trains, Literature and Culture (2012).

Reviews

“Using interdisciplinary methods, the stimulating essays in this collection consider the ways that a wide variety of cultural texts represent the experience of train travel across national borders.” • Sunny Stalter-Pace, Auburn University

“A welcome addition to the growing scholarship on the cultural history of the railway, expanding the scope of inquiry geographically and culturally. All in all, a fascinating exploration of trains, cultures, nations, and passengers confronting borders, mobility, and migration.” • Anna Despotopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Benjamin Fraser and Steven Spalding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1 The Railway Arts Sound and Space beyond Borders Aimée Boutin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
CHAPTER 2 The Sonic Force of the Machine Ensemble: Transnational Objectification in Steve Reich’s Different Trains (1988) Benjamin Fraser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
CHAPTER 3 A Genealogy of Apocalyptic Trains Snowpiercer (2013) and Its Precursors in the Transnational Literature of Transport John D. Schwetman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
CHAPTER 4 Dangerous Borders: Modernization and the Gothic Mode in Pánico en el Transiberiano (1972) and Howl (2015) Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Juan Juvé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
CHAPTER 5 Anachronism, Ambivalence, and (Trans)National Self-Reference: Tracking the English Literary Chunnel from 1986 On Heather Joyce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
CHAPTER 6 Crossing Borders on and beyond the Train in Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989) Steven Spalding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
CHAPTER 7 The Cosmopolitan Writer: Exploring Representations on the Underground Railways of Buenos Aires and Paris through Julio Cortázar Dhan Zunino Singh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
CHAPTER 8 Literary Railway Bazaars Transnational Discourses of Difference and Nostalgia in Contemporary India Abhishek Chatterjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
CHAPTER 9 Memories of Trains and Trains of Memory: Journeys from Past-Futures to Present-Pasts in El tren de la memoria (2005) Araceli Masterson-Algar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
CHAPTER 10 Nord-Sud: The Paris Metro and Transnational Avant-Garde Artistic Mobilities and Movements in Early Twentieth-Century Paris Scott D. Juall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
CONCLUSION Mind the Gap Benjamin Fraser and Steven Spalding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 250
Keywords: Mobility Studies; Cultural Studies (General)

eBook

Published: October 15, 2021
ISBN: 9781789209198