Tales of Berlin in American literature up to the 21st century / / by Joshua Parker.
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| Superior document: | Spatial Practices, Volume 22 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | German English |
| Series: | Spatial practices ;
Volume 22. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (436 pages) |
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Table of 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.