Re-presenting the railways of Sao Paulo state, Brazil, trhough media texts 1865-2003

• Autores: Martin Cooper
• Localización: Tst: Transportes, Servicios y telecomunicaciones, ISSN 1578-5777, Nº. 21, 2011, págs. 172-194
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper examines a selection of Brazilian cultural texts by artistis and writers which feeatrue the railway. The intention is to build an understanding of the manner in which the railway wards. A reading of these media texts is used to present an alternative history of the development of the railway in Sao Paulo. The art, music, fiction, film and television, and written histories reveal a sustained questioning of this form of transport. This is regarded as a process, after Fernando Ortiz, of transculturation - a Brazilianisation - of the imported technology of the railway ensemble. This paper observes that, for these writers, artistis, poets and film makers, this consistent examination and evaluation of the railway in Sao paulo, Brazil, has centred on the dualities of both modernity/tradition and urban/rural.