Explorations in Mobility. Transnational Railway Cultures : : Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art / / ed. by Steven D. Spalding, Benjamin Fraser.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Berns, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni,; Boutin, Aimée,; Chatterjee, Abhishek,; Fraser, Benjamin,; Joyce, Heather,; Juall, Scott D.,; Juvé, Juan,; Masterson-Algar, Araceli,; Schwetman, John D.,; Singh, Dhan Zunino,; Spalding, Steven,
• HerausgeberIn: Fraser, Benjamin,; Spalding, Steven D.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Explorations in Mobility ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Railway Arts Sound and Space beyond Borders -- CHAPTER 2 The Sonic Force of the Machine Ensemble: Transnational Objectification in Steve Reich’s Different Trains (1988) -- CHAPTER 3 A Genealogy of Apocalyptic Trains Snowpiercer (2013) and Its Precursors in the Transnational Literature of Transport -- CHAPTER 4 Dangerous Borders: Modernization and the Gothic Mode in Pánico en el Transiberiano (1972) and Howl (2015) -- CHAPTER 5 Anachronism, Ambivalence, and (Trans)National Self-Reference: Tracking the English Literary Chunnel from 1986 On -- CHAPTER 6 Crossing Borders on and beyond the Train in Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989) -- CHAPTER 7 The Cosmopolitan Writer: Exploring Representations on the Underground Railways of Buenos Aires and Paris through Julio Cortázar -- CHAPTER 8 Literary Railway Bazaars Transnational Discourses of Difference and Nostalgia in Contemporary India -- CHAPTER 9 Memories of Trains and Trains of Memory: Journeys from Past-Futures to Present-Pasts in El tren de la memoria (2005) -- CHAPTER 10 Nord-Sud: The Paris Metro and Transnational Avant-Garde Artistic Mobilities and Movements in Early Twentieth-Century Paris -- CONCLUSION Mind the Gap -- Index