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Tales of Berlin in American literature up to the 21st century / by Joshua Parker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Joshua, author.
- Series:
- Spatial practices ; Volume 22.
- Spatial Practices, 1871-689x ; Volume 22
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Berlin (Germany)--In literature.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (436 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2016.
- Contents:
- 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
- The great divorce
- Water crossings
- "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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-31209-9
- OCLC:
- 943710587
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004312098 DOI
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