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 Berlin is made literary – from old neighbourhood bookshops to new reading circles, NGOs working to secure asylum for writers living in exile to specialized workshops for young migrant poets. Highlighting the differences, tensions, and contradictions of these scenes, this book reveals how literature...
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 richly crafted ethnography, Moving Words reveals how Berlin's status as a global city is tightly bound up with its reputation as a cosmopolitan capital for the arts.
A richly crafted ethnography, Moving Words reveals how Berlin's status as a global city is tightly bound up with its reputation as a cosmopolitan capi...
