Tracking Modernity : India's Railway and the Culture of Mobility /

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From Mohandas Gandhi's nineteenth-century tour in a third-class compartment to the recent cinematic shenanigans of Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, the railway has been one of India's most potent emblems of modern life. In the first in-depth analysis of representations of the In...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Aguiar, Marian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Railroads in literature.
Railroads.
Postcolonialism.
Popular culture > Social aspects.
Partition, Territorial, in literature.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Mass media > Social aspects.
Indic literature (English)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Demembrement des nations dans la litterature.
Medias > Aspect social > Inde.
Culture populaire > Aspect social > Inde.
Postcolonialisme > Inde.
Modernisme (Esthetique) > Inde.
Litterature de l'Inde (anglaise) > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Mass media > Social aspects > India.
Popular culture > Social aspects > India.
Postcolonialism > India.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > India.
Railroads > India.
Indic literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
India.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tracking modernity
  • The permanent way: colonial discourse of the railway
  • The machine of empire: technology and decolonization
  • Partition and the death train
  • New destinations: the image of the postcolonial railway
  • Bollywood on the train
  • Terrorism and the railway.

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