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TRANSIT, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2013

Special Topic: Participatory Media and Public Memory

Foreword
Erik Born and Alex Lambrow, Managing Editors

PARTICIPATORY MEDIA AND PUBLIC MEMORY

“A Wall Victim from the West”: Migration, German Division, and Multidirectional Memory in Kreuzberg
Jeffrey Jurgens

Re-Imagining the Past in Transnational Online Communities
Kaarina Nikunen

Countermemory and the (Turkish-)German Theatrical Archive: Reading the Documentary Remains of Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Karagöz in Alamania (1986)
Lizzie Stewart

Lost: Black Briefcase
By Enis Batur Translated by Oya Erez

ARTICLE

Alwan’s Quest of Home: Re-Mapping Heimat and the Nation in Hussain Al-Mozany’s Der Marschländer: Bagdad–Beirut–Berlin
Yasemin Mohammad

BOOK REVIEWS

European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, by Fatima El-Tayeb
Reviewed by Priscilla Layne

Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition, by Yasemin Yildiz
Reviewed by Christina Butler

Kiezdeutsch: Ein neuer Dialekt entsteht, by Heike Wiese
Reviewed by Lindsay Preseau

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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