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Tales of Berlin in American literature up to the 21st century /
Of all European cities, Americans today are perhaps most curious about Berlin, whose position in the American imagination is an essential component of nineteenth-century, postwar and contemporary transatlantic imagology. Over various periods, Berlin has been a tenuous space for American claims to cu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
2016.
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| Colección: | Spatial practices an interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography and literature ;
volume 22 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: "a smaller but more intense orchestration"
- American space
- American Berlin across three centuries
- A tale of Berlin
- How American is it
- Toy houses and playing-card lawns
- "German" roots
- Rags, riches and rooming houses
- G the great divorce
- Water crossings
- N "this is our armageddon"
- Ruined landscapes, ruined women
- Women with attachments: mermaids, drink and drowning
- City of night
- "Certain tendencies": queer berlin
- Underground berlin
- "Something was different, but nothing had changed"
- Contaminating city
- Contents
- Just off the kurfurstendamm: spy fiction
- The garden and the forest: natural space in Berlin
- The weather in Berlin
- Isolating Berlin
- Naturalizing the wall
- Escape from Berlin
- Family reunions: searching for someone in Berlin
- Women and children first: taming history
- Contemporary voices: re-storing mythologies
- Conclusion.