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Author:
Misemer, Sarah M.
Title:
Moving forward, looking back : trains, literature, and the arts in the River Plate / Sarah M. Misemer.
Publisher:
Bucknell University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Argentine literature--History and criticism.
Uruguayan literature--History and criticism.
Railroads in literature
Rio de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay)--In literature.
National characteristics, Argentine, in literature.
National characteristics, Uruguayan, in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : "all aboard" : trains as carriers of cultural freight -- Whistle-stops on the way to modernity -- Railway crashes : politics, dictators, and gender wars -- Going south : nostalgia as a round-trip ticket -- Conclusion : dream trains : final desti-nation.
ISBN:
0838757650 (alk. paper)
9780838757659 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)461324305
LCCN:
2009045475
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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