Moving forward, looking back
Subtitle: trains, literature, and the arts in the River Plate
By: Sarah M. Misemer.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838757659
Subjects: Argentine literature -- History and criticism; Uruguayan literature -- History and criticism; Railroads in literature; National characteristics, Argentine, in literature; National characteristics, Uruguayan, in literature; Rio de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "all aboard": trains as carriers of cultural freight; title: Whistle-stops on the way to modernity; title: Railway crashes: politics, dictators, and gender wars; title: Going south: nostalgia as a round-trip ticket; title: Conclusion: dream trains: final desti-nation.