Volume 10.1: Foreward
Dear Readers, We are pleased to announce the publication of the first installment of texts for our 2015–2016 Tenth Anniversary Volume. Articles in this publication center around two themes of interest to contemporary German Studies: digital humanities research and the concept of the barrier. These research prompts for TRANSIT emerged out of conferences and panel style […]
PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 1 David D. Kim PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German StudiesPROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with GoethePROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements I would like to thank Deniz Göktürk for approaching me with the idea of […]
PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe
David D. Kim and Nickolas de Carlo PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements We would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers of our essay for […]
PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten
David D. Kim and Mark J. Phillips PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements We thank the two anonymous reviewers for their incisive intervention in our essay. […]
Digital Humanities as Translation: Visualizing Franz Rosenzweig’s Archive
Matthew Handelman Download PDF Abstract This article consists of a theoretical framework for and a demonstration of the process of visualizing the finding aid to Franz Rosenzweig’s archive at the University of Kassel, which contains metadata describing documents and letters pertaining to the German-Jewish philosopher, pedagogue, and translator. Its main contention is that much of […]
Thinking Sexuality Differently: Hartmann von Aue, Michel Foucault, and the Uses of the Past
James A. Schultz Download PDF Abstract In the introduction to the second volume of his history of sexuality Foucault suggests that “the effort to think one’s own history” might “free thought from what it silently thinks, and so enable it to think differently”—in this case, presumably, to think differently about sexuality. Insisting on the historicity […]
W oder die translinguale Erinnerung: Cécile Wajsbrot und die deutsche Sprache
Dirk Weissmann Download PDF Abstract Mit ihrem im Januar 2013 erstmals ausgestrahlten zweisprachigen Hörspiel W wie ihr Name/Avec un double V wagt die 1954 in Paris geborene, französische Schriftstellerin Cécile Wajsbrot erstmal den Weg in die deutsche Sprache als literarisches Ausdrucksmedium. Diese Form zweisprachigen Schreibens stellt den Höhepunkt einer jahrelangen Annäherung der Schriftstellerin an Deutschland […]
Schwarm und Schwelle: Migrationsbewegungen in Elfriede Jelineks Die Schutzbefohlenen
Silke Felber and Teresa Kovacs Download PDF Abstract Ausgehend vom Begriff des Schwarms fragt der Beitrag nach dem Schreiben über Asyl und Migration in Elfriede Jelineks Theatertext Die Schutzbefohlenen (2013). Basierend auf der Beobachtung, dass Jelinek den Begriff des Schwarms aus Aischylos’ Tragödie Die Schutzflehenden entlehnt (konkret handelt es sich um den „Vogelschwarm“ und den […]
Alley-grave: The Boundary of the Ghetto in Der Schrei, den niemand hört! by Else Feldmann
Christina Färber Download PDF Abstract I aim to analyze the space of the ghetto alley in the play Der Schrei, den niemand hört! by Else Feldmann. In the play, urban and identity barriers are combined within spatial speech and their violent boundaries are not only constituted from the outside, but from within the ghetto itself: […]
Migration and Its Discontents: Israelis in Berlin and Homeland Politics
Yael Almog Download PDF Abstract The essay discusses some ethnic and racial presumptions which subtend discussions of the recent Israeli migration to Germany, specifically the description of the Israeli presence in Berlin as signifying a “return” of Jews to Europe after the Holocaust. The essay argues that this description perpetuates the grounding of Zionism in […]