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Notes on the Movement of Trains in Germany

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The Portable Island

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Germany, for me, took the form of a tube. A long, dark tube, through which its trains traveled. This, together with the names of a few actors I had picked up from the silent films of the 1920s, was all I knew about the Reich and its various provinces. That, and a bit about its literature.

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  • Carlos A. Aguilera, Teoría del alma china (Mexico City: Editorial Umbral, 2006).

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Ruth Behar Lucía M. Suárez

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Chang, C.A. (2008). Notes on the Movement of Trains in Germany. In: Behar, R., Suárez, L.M. (eds) The Portable Island. New Concepts in Latino American Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616158_7

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