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    • About TRANSIT Journal
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Archival Engagement 

TRANSIT, Volume 13, Issue 2, 2022 
Elizabeth Sun, Managing Editor

Photo by Fengyu Wang

Foreword

Foreword by the Managing Editor
Elizabeth Sun

Feature Articles

Counterarchives, Appropriation and the Disobedient Gaze: Archival Structures in Ursula Biemann’s Contained Mobility and Charles Heller’s & Lorenzo Pezzani’s Death by Rescue 
Anna-Maria Senuysal

Paranoia als Migrationsdelirium und Vermittlungswahn um 1900: Zu den Aufzeichnungen von Anton Wenzel Grosz
Elena Meilicke

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Special Cluster: Turkish German Archive(s)

Introduction: Reexamining Turkish German Archive(s)
Ela Gezen and Mert Bahadir Reisoglu

Archival Dispersals: Literary Magazines as Mobile and Fragmentary Archives
Mert Bahadır Reisoğlu

Memory Meetings: Semra Ertan’s Ausländer and the Practice of the Migrant Archive
Sultan Doughan

The Digital Archive of Diaspora: Blogging (Post)Migration
Linda Maeding

“Almanya: A [Different] Future is Possible:” Defying Narratives of Return in Fatma Aydemir’s Ellbogen
Jon Cho-Polizzi

Escaping the Hamster Wheel: Creative Remembrance in Traveling Archives
Deniz Göktürk

Translations & Book Reviews

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After Flight
Ilija Trojanow
Translated by Ambika Athreya

Fears
Lena Gorelik
Translated by Nat Modlin

BOOK REVIEW: Asian Fusion by Caroline Rupprecht 
reviewed by Qingyang Freya Zhou

BOOK REVIEW: DisOrientations by Kristin Dickinson
reviewed by Ambika Athreya

CONTRIBUTE

To be considered for Volume 15, Issue 1 on Words and Lives in Transit, please view our CfP here and submit your article or proposal by May 15, 2025 to our eScholarship submissions portal. We accept submissions for translations, book reviews, and articles year-round.

Volumes

Volume 14.2 Borderlands

Volume 14.1 Borderlands

Volume 13.2 Archival Engagements

Special Issue: Homeland

Volume 13.1 Traveling Forms

Volume 12.2 Landscapes of Migration

Volume 12.1 Landscapes of Migration

Volume 11.2 Reflections on a Changing Europe

Volume 11.1 Reflections on a Changing Europe

Volume 10.2 The Future of the Past

Volume 10.1 The Digital German Humanities & Barriers

Volume 9.2 Contemporary Remediations

Volume 9.1 Das neue Deutschland

Volume 8.2 Participatory Media and Public Memory

Volume 8.1 Open Forum

Volume 7 Cosmopolitical and Transnational Interventions

Volume 6 TRANSIT at the GSA

Volume 5 Translingual Encounters

Volume 4 Multicultural Europe

Volume 3 Changing Communities

Volume 2 Translation and Mobility

Volume 1 Migration, Culture, and the Nation State

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