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