Moving words : literature, memory, and migration in Berlin /

"In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city--a place where artists from around the world gather and can make a life. Moving Words foregrounds the many contexts in which life in the city of Be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brandel, Andrew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2023]
Series:Anthropological horizons.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Berlin, City of Letters
  • The Prosody of Social Ties: Poetry and Fleeting Moments in a Workshop
  • Exile in Translation: The Politics of Remaining Unknown
  • In the Footsteps of a Flaneur: A Grammar of Returning (to a Street)
  • Selecting, Collecting, Connecting: Making Books and Making Do
  • Life in a Net of Language: Literature, Translation, and the Feel of Words.