Tracking modernity [[electronic resource] ] : India's railway and the culture of mobility / / Marian Aguiar

• Autore: Aguiar Marian
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis [Minn.], : University of Minnesota Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/3558
• Soggetto topico: Indic literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism; Railroads - India; Modernism (Aesthetics) - India; Railroads in literature; Postcolonialism - India; Popular culture - Social aspects - India; Mass media - Social aspects - India; Partition, Territorial, in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Indian railway, Marian Aguiar interprets modernity through the legacy of this transformative technology.Since the colonial period in India, the railway has been idealized as a rational utopiaùa moving box in which racial and class differences might be amalgamated under a civic, secular, and public order. Aguiar char
• Titolo autorizzato: Tracking modernity
• ISBN: 1-4529-4642-6; 0-8166-7670-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789869703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II