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TRANSIT, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2006

Special Topic: Translation and Mobility

Foreword
Jennifer Zahrt

Translation and Mobility

Wenn die Schweizer Heimat exotisch geworden ist. Das Thema der Heimkehr aus Brasilien bei deutschschweizerischen Autoren
Jeroen Dewulf

Traveling without Moving: Physical and Linguistic Mobility in Yoko Tawada’s Überseezungen
Christina Kraenzle

The Task of the Loving Translator: Translation, Völkerschauen, and Colonial Ambivalence in Peter Altenberg’s Ashantee (1897)
David D. Kim

Flânerie
Graham Parkes

Translation after 9/11
Emily Apter

Transit Heimat: Transnational Subjectivity and Mobility in German Theatre
Denise Varney

Finding Home in a Liminal Space: Exile and Return in Andreas Dresen’s Halbe Treppe
Kathleen Sclafani

Transformative Translations: Cyrillizing and Queering
Katrin Pahl

Die Übersetzung von Rhythmus: Hölderlins Transitprogramm hin zu einer „belebenden Kunst“
Boris Previsic

The Courtyard in the Mirror
Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Translated by Leslie A. Adelson

Open Forum

„Felsenwand“ vs. „Blumental“: Fremdwahrnehmung und Selbststilisierung in J.G. Seumes Mein Sommer 1805
Jakob Starzinger

Book Reviews

Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and The European Road Movie, by Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascarolie
Reviewed by Steve Choe

Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing, by John Zilcosky
Reviewed by Christina Gerhardt

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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