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Trains, Literature, and Culture - Reading and Writing the Rails (Hardcover)
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Trains, Literature, and Culture - Reading and Writing the Rails (Hardcover)
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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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