Abstract:This essay charts a literary voyage that begins in Istanbul in 1933 with Agatha Christie's novel of that year, Murder on the Orient Express and ends with its 2000 Bolivian spinoff, Juan de Recacoechea's Altiplano Express, in La Paz. In the commerce of imaginaries between these texts the places of provenance and arrival anchor the cartography of transnational capital. Over the course of this voyage, notions of revealed knowledge warp into ideas of simulacra, the United States devolves from being figured as an i… Show more
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