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@article{ART002890230},
author={Lee Euna},
title={Modern Odyssey To Death : The Train and the Tragedy of Immigration},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2022},
volume={67},
pages={143-173}

TY - JOUR
AU - Lee Euna
TI - Modern Odyssey To Death : The Train and the Tragedy of Immigration
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2022
VL - 67
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 143
EP - 173
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This article analyzed the ways in which the representation of death due to the operation of trains changes in response to three periods that marked large fluctuations in immigration flows from Mexico and Central America. It aims to reveal that the violence of the train that causes immediate or consequential death of the migrants can also be approached from the perspective of mobility, identicality, and speed. In this study, the contradictory experiences with trains that go against their nature and purpose are transformed into the violence of the train, which recurs throughout many historical periods. The three works studied in this article, such as Norte by Edmundo Paz Soldán and Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli, and the movie ‘Alambrista’ by Robert Young, reveal how trains as a space along with the rail tracks demonstrate the biological power of the state and the capitalistic logic of accumulation through exploit, repression, mobility, and speed. Each work revealed how the free mobility was ironically cooperative with the violence of forced migration and how a slow mode of freight train, rather than a fast vehicle, was paradoxically beneficial in an economy of exploitation. Ultimately, this study examined how the voices of the authors deepened the madness, imprisonment, vulnerability, and insecurity, expanding them to a more existential level, making the train journeys resemble a modern odyssey to death.
KW - Immigration;Freight Train;Norte;Lost Children Archive;‘Alambrista’
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Lee Euna. (2022). Modern Odyssey To Death : The Train and the Tragedy of Immigration. Cross-Cultural Studies, 67, 143-173.

Lee Euna. 2022, "Modern Odyssey To Death : The Train and the Tragedy of Immigration", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.67, pp.143-173.

Lee Euna "Modern Odyssey To Death : The Train and the Tragedy of Immigration" Cross-Cultural Studies 67 pp.143-173 (2022) : 143.

Lee Euna. Modern Odyssey To Death : The Train and the Tragedy of Immigration. 2022; 67 143-173.

Lee Euna. "Modern Odyssey To Death : The Train and the Tragedy of Immigration" Cross-Cultural Studies 67(2022) : 143-173.

Lee Euna. Modern Odyssey To Death : The Train and the Tragedy of Immigration. Cross-Cultural Studies, 67, 143-173.

Lee Euna. Modern Odyssey To Death : The Train and the Tragedy of Immigration. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2022; 67 143-173.

Lee Euna. Modern Odyssey To Death : The Train and the Tragedy of Immigration. 2022; 67 143-173.

Lee Euna. "Modern Odyssey To Death : The Train and the Tragedy of Immigration" Cross-Cultural Studies 67(2022) : 143-173.