Benjamin Fraser is Professor of Spanish in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and co-editor of Trains, Mobility and Culture (2012) and Trains, Literature and Culture (2012).

” [This] edited volume will be of interest to historians of technology as it engages with concepts usually analyzed by the discipline. The notion of techno-scientific progress (and its persistence) is the most visible (with trains assuming the role of icon of modernity, contrasting with the backwardness embodied in characters and landscapes surrounding them).” • Technology and Culture“Using interdisciplinary methods, the stimulating essays in this collection consider the ways that a wide variety of cultural texts represent the experience of train travel across national borders.” • Sunny Stalter-Pace, Auburn University“A welcome addition to the growing scholarship on the cultural history of the railway, expanding the scope of inquiry geographically and culturally. All in all, a fascinating exploration of trains, cultures, nations, and passengers confronting borders, mobility, and migration.” • Anna Despotopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

• IntroductionBenjamin Fraser and Steven SpaldingChapter 1. The Railway Arts: Sound and Space Beyond BordersAimée BoutinChapter 1 AppendixChapter 2. The Sonic Force of the Machine Ensemble: Transnational Objectification in Steve Reich’s Different Trains (1988)Benjamin FraserChapter 3. A Genealogy of Apocalyptic Trains: Snowpiercer and Its Precursors in the Transnational Literature of TransportJohn D. SchwetmanChapter 4. Dangerous Borders: Modernization and the Gothic Mode in Horror Express (1972) and Howl (2015)Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, and Juan JuvéChapter 5. Anachronism, Ambivalence, and (Trans)National Self-reference: Tracking the English Literary Chunnel from 1986 onHeather JoyceChapter 6. Crossing Borders On and Beyond the Train in Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989)Steven D. SpaldingChapter 7. The Cosmopolitan Writer: Exploring Representations on the Underground Railways of Buenos Aires and Paris through Julio CortázarDhan Zunino SinghChapter 8. Literary Railway Bazaars: Transnational Discourses of Difference and Nostalgia in Contemporary IndiaAbhishek ChatterjeeChapter 9. Memories of Trains and Trains of Memory: Journeys from Past-Futures to Present-Pasts in El Tren de la Memoria (2005)Araceli Masterson-AlgarChapter 10. Nord-Sud: The Parisian Metro and Transnational Avant-Garde Artistic Mobilities and Movements in Early Twentieth-Century ParisScott D. JuallConclusion: Mind the GapBenjamin Fraser and Steven D. Spalding