Built on Sand [electronic resource]
Paul Scraton2019
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Berlin: long-celebrated as a city of artists and outcasts, but also a city of
teachers and construction workers. A place of tourists and refugees, and the
memories of those exiled and expelled. A city named after marshland; if you dig
a hole, you'll soon hit sand.
The stories of Berlin are the stories Built on Sand. A wooden town, laid waste
by the Thirty Years War that became the metropolis by the Spree that spread out
and swallowed villages whole. The city of Rosa Luxemburg and Joseph Roth, of
student movements and punks on both sides of the Wall. A place still bearing the
scars of National Socialism and the divided city that emerged from the wreckage
of war.
Built on Sand. centres on the personal geographies of place, and how memory and
history live on in the individual and collective imagination. Stories of
landscapes and a city both real and imagined; stories of exile and trauma,
mythology and folklore; of how the past shapes and distorts our understanding of
the...
Main title:
Built on Sand [electronic resource] / Paul Scraton
Author:
Paul Scraton, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Influx Press, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (224 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781910312346
Language:
English
BRN:
433957
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