{"product_id":"tales-of-berlin-in-american-literature-up-to-the-21st-century-9789004312081","title":"Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf 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 cultural heritage and to real geographic space in Europe, symbolizing the ultimate evil and the power of redemption. This volume offers a comprehensive examination of the city’s image in American literature from 1840 to the present. Tracing both a history of Berlin and of American culture through the ways the city has been narrated across three centuries by some 100 authors through 145 novels, short stories, plays and poems, Tales of Berlin presents a composite landscape not only of the German capital, but of shifting subtexts in American society which have contextualized its meaning for Americans in the past, and continue to do so today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Parker’s work is a meta-tale of quest and frustration, of mythical past, wished-for projections, and threadbare present, of history, daily life and literature. It is a book of fictional reality, and in-depth documented analysis of endless American mirrors of Berlin and Berliners throughout over one and a half century.\" - Mariana Net, University of Miskolc US in European Journal of American Studies [Online], 2017 pp. 1-5.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   Prologue: “a smaller but more intense orchestration”   Landscape  Place and Space   Part One: American Space  American Berlin Across Three Centuries   Part Two:  A Tale of Berlin  How American Is It  Toy Houses and Playing-Card Lawns  “German” Roots   Part Three:  Rags, Riches and Rooming Houses  \tRiches  \tRags  \tRooming Houses  The Great Divorce Water Crossings   Part Four:  “This is our Armageddon”  Ruined Landscapes, Ruined Women  Women with Attachments: Mermaids, Drink and Drowning  City of Night  “Certain tendencies”: Queer Berlin0 Underground Berlin  “Something was different, but nothing had changed”  Contaminating City  Just off the Kurfürstendamm: Spy Fiction  The Garden and the Forest: Natural Space in Berlin The Weather in Berlin  Isolating Berlin  Naturalizing the Wall Escape from Berlin   Part Five:  Family Reunions: Searching for Someone in Berlin  Women and Children First: Taming History  Contemporary Voices: Re-Storing Mythologies   Conclusion   Bibliography of Fiction  Bibliography of Secondary Sources  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210682556759,"sku":"9789004312081","price":147.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tales-of-berlin-in-american-literature-up-to-the-21st-century-9789004312081","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}