TRANSIT 11.2: Foreword | TRANSIT
TRANSIT 11.2: Foreword Reflections on (a) Changing Europe Dear Readers, It is my privilege to introduce the second issue of the eleventh volume of TRANSIT Journal. As a second installment of our ten-year anniversary volume, we continue the discussions fostered by our CFP: Reflections on (a) Changing Europe. Representing both continuity and innovation, this issue […]
Eine wohltuende Unsicherheit: On Naming and Authenticity in the Works of Milena Michiko Flašar / by Edward Muston | TRANSIT
Eine wohltuende Unsicherheit: On Naming and Authenticity in the Works of Milena Michiko Flašar TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Edward Muston Download PDF Acknowledgments I am very grateful to Fatima Naqvi for introducing me to Flašar’s works. I am also indebted to the editors and reviewers for helping improve this article with their thoughtful comments […]
Sharing Fugitive Lives / by Jonas Teupert | TRANSIT
Sharing Fugitive Lives: Digital Encounters in Senthuran Varatharajah’s Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Jonas Teupert Download PDF Abstract In Senthuran Varatharajah’s novel Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen, two members of a cosmopolitan academic sphere jetting around the globe to attend conferences contingently “meet” in the unlocatable space of Facebook where they initiate […]
“The Welser Phantom”: Apparitions of the Welser Venezuela Colony in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German Cultural Memory / by Giovanna Montenegro | TRANSIT
“The Welser Phantom”: Apparitions of the Welser Venezuela Colony in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German Cultural Memory TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Giovanna Montenegro Download PDF Acknowledgments I want to thank: TRANSIT’s anonymous peer reviewers for their comments which helped clarify this manuscript; Dr. Ivonne del Valle and Dr. Elisabeth Krimmer who read previous versions; the […]
Precarious Intimacies: Narratives of Non-Arrival in a Changing Europe / by Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber | TRANSIT
Precarious Intimacies: Narratives of Non-Arrival in a Changing Europe TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber Download PDF Abstract The representation of intimacy in depictions of immigration exists alongside histories of deeply racist contacts and connections. Yet intimate connection may also produce moments of joy, sustaining solidarity and resistance to violent forms […]
BOOK REVIEW: In Permanent Crisis by İpek A. Çelik / Reviewed by Jessica Ruffin | TRANSIT
BOOK REVIEW In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema by İpek A. Çelik TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Download PDF Çelik, İpek A. In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. 206 pages. İpek A. Çelik begins In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary […]
BOOK REVIEW: Black German by Theodor Michael / Reviewed by Molly Krueger and Michael Sandberg | TRANSIT
BOOK REVIEW Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century by Theodor Michael Translated by Eve Rosenhaft TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Download PDF Michael, Theodor. Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century. Translated by Eve Rosenhaft, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017. 216 pages. Who is a “statesman?” This is the principal […]
The Indian Threat to England (On the Occasion of a Political Assassination by a Young Hindu) 1909 / translated by Ashwin J. Manthripragada | TRANSIT
The Indian Threat to England (On the Occasion of a Political Assassination by a Young Hindu) 1909 by Stefan Zweig TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Translated by Ashwin J. Manthripragada Download PDF Translator’s Introduction In the winter of 1908, the 27-year-old Stefan Zweig left Vienna for a five-month journey to India, Ceylon, and Burma. The […]
Stranger Shaming / translated by Ida Sophie Winter | TRANSIT
“Stranger Shaming” by Katja Huber TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Translated by Ida Sophie Winter Download PDF Translator’s Introduction Katja Huber was born in Weilheim in 1971. She has worked for the Bayrischer Rundfunk since 1996, where she has produced and contributed journalistic and literary pieces. She was awarded the Ravensburger Media Prize in 2007, […]