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Not from here : on translating Zoran Drvenkar’s 'Standing in the rain'
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Wright, Chantal (2015) Not from here : on translating Zoran Drvenkar’s 'Standing in the rain'. Words Without Borders . ISSN 1936-1459.
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Abstract
Im Regen stehen, Zoran Drvenkar’s autobiographically informed novel about growing up in Berlin in the seventies, comes from a place that doesn’t exist any more. The hermetically sealed West Berlin of pre-unification days, full of young men fleeing military service in West Germany proper, Gastarbeiter (guest workers) from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Italy, and Morocco, and avant-garde musicians like the Einstürzende Neubauten (Collapsing New Buildings) coaxing sounds out of industrial fixtures and fittings, provokes its own nostalgia. A Westalgie to match East Germany’s Ostalgie. These days, even the formerly blue-collar Kieze (districts) of West Berlin are bourgeois, and if they’re not yet properly bourgeois, they’re gentrifying. The socio-cultural topography of both halves of the city is profoundly altered.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Words Without Borders | ||||
Publisher: | Words Without Borders | ||||
Place of Publication: | Words without Borders : online magazine for international literature | ||||
ISSN: | 1936-1459 | ||||
Official Date: | January 2015 | ||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Media of Output (format): | Article | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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