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Trains, Literature, and Culture

Reading and Writing the Rails

von: Steven D. Spalding, Benjamin Fraser, Roxanna Curto, Beth Muellner, Alessio Lerro, Claudie Massicotte, Claudia May, Scott Palmer, Matt Thompson, Michael Velez
109,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	29.12.2011
ISBN/EAN:	9780739165621
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	230

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This volume 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Benjamin Fraser and Steven Spalding Part I. Race, Class, and Gender Chapter 1: Railroad Blues: Crossing the Tracks of Gender, Class and Race Inequities in the Blues and Ann Petry’s The Street Claudia May Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers on the Railroad Beth Muellner Part II. Politics and Poetics Chapter 3: Technology Transfer, the Railway and Independence in Ousmane Sembène’s Les Bouts de bois de Dieu Roxanna Curto Chapter 4: Futurist Trains: Aesthetics and Subjectivity in the Italian Avant-Garde Alessio Lerro Part III. Visual Cultures Chapter 5: Sublime Hieroglyphics: The Pacific Coast Views 1867-1872 of Carleton Watkins Scott Palmer Chapter 6: Modernity, Anxiety and the Development of a Popular Railway Landscape Aesthetic, 1809-1879 Matt Thompson Part IV. New Critical Transfers Chapter 7: Mapping Memory Through the Railway Network: Reconsidering Freud’s Metaphors from the Project for a Scientific Psychology to Beyond the Pleasure Principle Claudie Massicotte Chapter 8: Killer Trains and Thrilling Travels: the Spectacle of Mobility in Zola and Proust Steven D. Spalding Part V. Economics and Power Chapter : Class and Counterfeiting during the Porfiriato: Gutiérrez Nájera’s “The Streetcar Novel” José Eduardo González <a></a>Chapter 10: Train, Trestle, Ticker: Railroad and Region in Frank Norris’s The Octopus and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and The Don Michael Velez

Autorenportrait

Steven D. Spalding is assistant professor of French at Christopher Newport University. Benjamin Fraser is assistant professor of Spanish at The College of Charleston, South Carolina. He is also the author of the monographs Disability Studies and Spanish Culture (Liverpool UP, forthcoming), Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience (Bucknell UP, 2011) and Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain (U North Carolina P, 2010) as well as the editor and translator of Deaf History and Culture in Spain (Gallaudet UP, 2009).