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Tracking Modernity
Marian Aguiar
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Description for Tracking Modernity
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBLL; JFC; TBX; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
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 utopia—a moving box in which racial and class differences might be amalgamated under a civic, secular, and public order. Aguiar charts this powerful image into the postcolonial period, showing how the ... Read more
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 utopia—a moving box in which racial and class differences might be amalgamated under a civic, secular, and public order. Aguiar charts this powerful image into the postcolonial period, showing how the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816665617
SKU
V9780816665617
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About Marian Aguiar
Marian Aguiar is associate professor in the Literary and Cultural Studies Program of the English department at Carnegie Mellon University.
Reviews for Tracking Modernity
"In Tracking Modernity, Marian Aguiar demonstrates a compelling grasp of the complex discourses around and about India’s railway and its imbrication in the contested discourses of modernity, mobility, and migration. Aguiar offers both a panoramic and a concentrated view of the many modes of representation of the scene of the train, the spaces of the train, and the railway platform. ... Read more