Este tren no está destinado a la gloria Un estudio de ferropaisajes literarios

"Este tren no está destinado a la gloria" revolves around the literary metaphor of railway landscapes. The book approaches the literary representation of the railway world through narratives set in the Panama Canal Zone, the Central American banana enclaves, and the migrant caravan crossing Mexico on La Bestia. These narratives are conceived as narrative nodes created around the mobility of human and material capital by train, which is interdependent on the economies that move that capital. Through his analysis, Ravasio unveils the dialectic of immobility and mobility, demonstrating how literary railway landscapes correlate spatial displacement with social immobility. This exposes the exiles of modernity and their inglorious journey across the Americas.

Paola Ravasio