LITERARY CRITICISM
THIS TRAIN IS NOT BOUND FOR GLORY
PERFORMING ARTS
OFF THE GRID Art Practices and Public Space
A Study on Literary Trainscapes
WILFRIED RAUSSERT
PAOLA RAVASIO
The changing relationship between art practice and public space in the Americas.
Examines the literary representation of the movement of people and goods by the railway system across the Americas. This book explores how spatial displacement correlates to social immobility narratologically by carrying out a hermeneutic of literary trainscapes. Understood as the arrangement of the social and the mobile in the literary representation of movement of people and goods by the railway system across inter-American economies, the book focuses on narratives based at the Panama Canal Zone, across the Central American banana republics, and on the human caravan traversing Mexico towards the US border upon La Bestia.
PAOLA RAVASIO, PhD (BIELEFELD, GERMANY) is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. She holds a PhD in Romance Studies with emphasis on the Central American
Looking at three historically distinct conjunctures of artistic practice, this book claims public space for renegotiating art and community, art and politics, art and economy. This book investigates the changing relations between art practice and public space, between art and community, and between art and resistance in the Americas in the 1920s, 1960s, and the contemporary period. The book explores new visions of culture, community, and public space in the US and Latin America as they have emerged from artistic practice in public sites.
WILFRIED RAUSSERT (BIELEFELD, GERMANY) is chair of North American and Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Inter-American Studies APRIL
232 pages 978-1-60801-213-8
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Caribbean from the University of Würzburg, a triple master’s degree in Literary European Cultures from the Universities of Bologna, Strasbourg and Thessaloniki, and a Licenciatura in Classical Philology from the University of Costa Rica.
Inter-American Studies JUNE
114 pages 978-1-60801-216-9
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