Bumperfatscha / by Iso Camartin / Translated by Kurt Beals
Bumperfatscha Iso Camartin Translated by Kurt Beals Download PDF Abstract: Originally published in German in Iso Camartin, Die Deutschen und ihre Nachbarn: Schweiz (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2008). Acknowledgments: Translated from the German by Kurt Beals. We don’t just sit down at the table and dig in. Good manners require that we speak to one another […]
Plea for a Mobile Identity / by Hugo Loetscher
Plea for a Mobile Identity Hugo Loetscher Download PDF Abstract: This lecture was originally delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, on December 4, 2008. It focuses on the conception of identity from both a Swiss and an international perspective, debating the conflict between personal, national and global identity on the basis of personal experiences. […]
If the Good Lord were Swiss / by Hugo Loetscher / Translated by Rafaël Newman
If the Good Lord were Swiss Hugo Loetscher Translated by Rafaël Newman Download PDF Abstract: Originally published in German in Der Waschküchenschlüssel, oder, Was-wenn Gott Schweizer wäre (Zurich: Diogenes, 1983). Acknowledgments: Translated from the German by Rafaël Newman. What would it be like if the Good Lord were Swiss? The question is not as idle […]
Switzerland, a Country of Paradoxes: An Interview about Swiss Identity, Politics and Culture with Hugo Loetscher, Roger de Weck and Iso Camartin / by Jeroen Dewulf, Kezhen Feng, Susan Hunsicker, and Andrew Tweed
Switzerland, a Country of Paradoxes: An Interview about Swiss Identity, Politics and Culture with Hugo Loetscher, Roger de Weck and Iso Camartin Jeroen Dewulf, Kezhen Feng, Susan Hunsicker, and Andrew Tweed Download PDF Abstract: The following interview was compiled from conversations with Hugo Loetscher, Roger de Weck and Iso Camartin during their visits to Berkeley […]
Points of Entanglement: The Overdetermination of German Space and Identity in Lola + Bilidikid and Walk on Water / by Nicholas Baer
Points of Entanglement: The Overdetermination of German Space and Identity in Lola + Bilidikid and Walk on Water Nicholas Baer Download PDF Abstract: In this essay, I consider how films have engaged with the politics of German space and identity in the context of the country’s National Socialist past – and, more specifically, in the […]
Selections from Koppstoff / by Feridun Zaimoğlu / Translated by Kristin Dickinson, Robin Ellis, and Priscilla D. Layne
Selections from Koppstoff Feridun Zaimoğlu Translated by Kristin Dickinson, Robin Ellis, and Priscilla D. Layne Download PDF Abstract: Selections from Feridun Zaimoglu’s book Koppstoff, translated from the German by Kristin Dickinson, Robin Ellis, and Priscilla D. Layne. Sistem versus Soopcoolture Ferah, 24, Student (Film and Television) Works as a go-go dancer in a trendy disco. […]
Translating Communities: Rethinking the Collective in Feridun Zaimoğlu's Koppstoff / by Kristin Dickinson, Robin Ellis, and Priscilla D. Layne
Translating Communities: Rethinking the Collective in Feridun Zaimoğlu’s Koppstoff Kristin Dickinson, Robin Ellis, and Priscilla D. Layne Download PDF Abstract: Feridun Zaimoğlu’s second major book, Koppstoff: Kanaka Sprak vom Rande der Gesellschaft (1998), resists common conceptions of belonging and challenges readers to rethink conventions of religion, nationalism and femininity. As a group of three translators […]
Deleuze, Feminism, and the New European Union: An Interview with Rosi Braidotti / by Pascale LaFountain
Deleuze, Feminism, and the New European Union: An Interview with Rosi Braidotti Pascale LaFountain Download PDF Abstract: Rosi Braidotti is at the vanguard of politically active theorists. Her engagement is marked by her intellectual prowess in feminism of the European Union and by the formation of the Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, which she […]
Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source, by José Arturo Saavedra Casco / Reviewed by Bryan Aja
Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source, by José Arturo Saavedra Casco Reviewed by Bryan Aja Download PDF José Arturo Saavedra Casco. Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007. Pp. 323. Paper, $29.95. […]
The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality, by Wolfram Wette / Reviewed by Steve Choe
The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality, by Wolfram Wette Reviewed by Steve Choe Download PDF Wolfram Wette. The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality. Trans. Deborah Lucas Schneider. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 372. Paper, $17.95. Wolfram Wette’s The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality is a translation of the original German text published by S. Fischer Verlag in […]