[Linganth] today on the CaMP blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the CaMP anthropology blog, Andrew Brandel discusses his book,
Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: 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 can be both a site of domination and a resource for
resisting and transforming those conditions. By attending to the everyday
lives of writers, readers, booksellers, and translators, it offers a
crucial new vantage point on the politics of difference in contemporary
Europe, at a moment marked by historical violence, resurgent nationalism,
and the fraught politics of migration.

Rooted in ethnographic fieldwork, rich historical archives, and literary
analysis, *Moving Words* examines the different claims people make on and
for literature as it carries them through the city on irregular and
intersecting paths. Along the way, Brandel offers a new approach to the
ethnography of literature that aims to think anthropologically about
crossings in time and in space, where literature provides a footing in a
world constituted by a multiplicity of real possibilities.
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