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• Title: Misemer, Sarah M. Moving Forward, Looking Back: Trains, Literature, And the Arts in the River Plate
• Author : Chasqui
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 55 KB

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Misemer, Sarah M. Moving Forward, Looking Back: Trains, Literature, and the Arts in the River Plate. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2010. 249 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8387-5765-9. Even in the twenty-first century, train travel remains the quintessential modern experience. Whether urban or rural--now that 50% of the world's population lives in cities--the rails are not just an increasingly common method of transport but also a multivalent signifier: a sign of technological advance, a metaphor for progress, a vehicle of escape and separation (both mental and physical) and a point of entry into the questions of time and space that continue to dog contemporary discourses on our chaotic and mobile modernity. As Sarah M. Misemer shows splendidly through her book Moving Forward, Looking Back--with a focus on cultural products from the River Plate region--train travel has long been a way for us to think more deeply not merely about physical landscapes but about social ones as well (violence, dictatorship, patriarchy, neoliberalism), just as it has highlighted also "time's march forward" and our "nostalgic return to the past, reconstructed through memories" (14).

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