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