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Writing the new Berlin : the German capital in post-Wall literature /

The wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel that could explain what was happening to Germany and the Germans. Such a novel never appeared. Instead, writers have created a patchwork imaginary - in the form of about 300 works of fiction set in Berlin - of a cit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gerstenberger, Katharina, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Camden House ; Boydell & Brewer [UK distributor], 2008.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: newness and its discontents: Berlin literature in the 1990s and beyond
  • Erotic sites: sexual topographies after the Wall
  • Bodies and borders: the monsters of Berlin
  • Multicultural Germans and Jews of many cultures: imagining "Jewish Berlin"
  • Goodbye to East Berlin
  • Looking for perspectives: the construction at Potsdamer Platz.