Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. A Note on Translations, Quotations, and Names xv
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Women on the Verge of History: Libuše and the Foundational Legend of Prague 15
7. 2. Deviant Monsters and Wayward Women: The Prague Ghetto and the Legend of the Golem 43
8. 3. The Castle Hill Was Hidden: Franz Kafka and Czech Literature 77
9. 4. A Stranger in Prague: Writing and the Politics of Identity in Apollinaire, Nezval, and Camus 109
10. 5. Sailing to Bohemia: Utopia, Memory, and the Holocaust in Postwar Austrian and German Writing 137
11. Epilogue: Postmodern Prague? 168
12. Appendix: Translations of Poems about Prague 177
13. Bibliography 183
14. Index 193