Transnational Railway Cultures

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).

Introduction

Benjamin Fraser and Steven Spalding



Chapter 1. The Railway Arts: Sound and Space Beyond Borders

Aimée Boutin

    Chapter 1 Appendix



Chapter 2. The Sonic Force of the Machine Ensemble: Transnational Objectification in Steve Reich’s Different Trains (1988)

Benjamin Fraser



Chapter 3. A Genealogy of Apocalyptic Trains: Snowpiercer and Its Precursors in the Transnational Literature of Transport

John D. Schwetman



Chapter 4. Dangerous Borders: Modernization and the Gothic Mode in Horror Express (1972) and Howl (2015)

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, and Juan Juvé



Chapter 5. Anachronism, Ambivalence, and (Trans)National Self-reference: Tracking the English Literary Chunnel from 1986 on

Heather Joyce



Chapter 6. Crossing Borders On and Beyond the Train in Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989)

Steven D. Spalding



Chapter 7. The Cosmopolitan Writer: Exploring Representations on the Underground Railways of Buenos Aires and Paris through Julio Cortázar

Dhan Zunino Singh



Chapter 8. Literary Railway Bazaars: Transnational Discourses of Difference and Nostalgia in Contemporary India

Abhishek Chatterjee



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



Chapter 10. Nord-Sud: The Parisian Metro and Transnational Avant-Garde Artistic Mobilities and Movements in Early Twentieth-Century Paris

Scott D. Juall



Conclusion: Mind the Gap

Benjamin Fraser and Steven D. Spalding