Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations, Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni, eds. / Reviewed by Ashwin Manthripragada
Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations, Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni, eds. Reviewed by Ashwin Manthripragada Download PDF Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni, eds. Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Pp. 270. Cloth, $69.99. This volume of essays was […]
Volume 3: Foreword
Volume 3: Foreword Welcome to the 2007 issue of TRANSIT, “Changing Communities.” We are proud to include in this issue Dean Bell’s article, “Jews, Ethnicity and Identity in Early Modern Hamburg,” David Gramling’s “Pamuk’s Dis-orient: Reassembling Kafka’s Castle in Snow (2002),” and Anke Biendarra’s interview, “‘Schriftstellerin zu sein und in seinem Leben anwesend zu sein, […]
Jews, Ethnicity and Identity in Early Modern Hamburg / by Dean P. Bell
Jews, Ethnicity and Identity in Early Modern Hamburg Dean P. Bell Download PDF. Abstract: During the seventeenth century a vibrant and complex Jewish community developed in Hamburg and its surrounding areas. This community was comprised of several sub-communities that varied because of social and economic factors, ethnic differences and external political pressures. Utilizing the protocol […]
'Schriftstellerin zu sein und in seinem Leben anwesend zu sein, ist für mich eins': Ein Gespräch mit Terézia Mora / by Anke Biendarra
‘Schriftstellerin zu sein und in seinem Leben anwesend zu sein, ist für mich eins’: Ein Gespräch mit Terézia Mora Anke Biendarra Download PDF Abstract: A conversation with the author Terézia Mora. The following interview was conducted in Berlin on September 11, 2007. Terézia Mora was born in 1971 in Sopron, Hungary, in the border region […]
Pamuk's Dis-Orient: Reassembling Kafka’s Castle in Snow (2002) / by David Gramling
Pamuk’s Dis-Orient: Reassembling Kafka’s Castle in Snow (2002) David Gramling Download PDF Abstract: This article analyses the circuitous relationships between Franz Kafka’s last novel The Castle and Orhan Pamuk’s 2002 Snow. Though Pamuk’s “political novel” does not mention Kafka’s hero by name, K.’s pursuit of the domain of Count Westwest in The Castle lays the […]
Fräuleins und GIs, by Annette Brauerhoch / Reviewed by Priscilla D. Layne
Fräuleins und GIs, by Annette Brauerhoch Reviewed by Priscilla D. Layne Download PDF Annette Brauerhoch. Fräuleins und GIs. Frankfurt am Main und Basel: Stroemfeld Verlag, 2006. Pp. 532. Paper, €28.00. According to Annette Brauerhoch, prior to the Second World War, the figure of the Fräulein signified an independent, single, working woman (9); in the years […]
Fliehkraft. Gesellschaft in Bewegung—von Migranten und Touristen, by Tom Holert and Mark Terkessidis / Reviewed by Mason Allred
Fliehkraft. Gesellschaft in Bewegung—von Migranten und Touristen, by Tom Holert and Mark Terkessidis Reviewed by Mason Allred Download PDF Tom Holert and Mark Terkessidis. Fliehkraft. Gesellschaft in Bewegung—von Migranten und Touristen. Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2006. Pp. 285. Paper, €8.95. In Fliehkraft, the collaborating authors, Tom Holert and Mark Terkessidis, have teamed up to examine […]
Re-theorizing the “We” in Community: Conceptualising Community: Beyond the State and Individual, by David Studdert; Wir-Intentionalität: Kritik des ontologischen Individualismus und Rekonstruktion der Gemeinschaft, by Hans Bernhard-Schmid / Reviewed by Robert Schechtman
Re-theorizing the “We” in Community: Conceptualising Community: Beyond the State and Individual, by David Studdert; Wir-Intentionalität: Kritik des ontologischen Individualismus und Rekonstruktion der Gemeinschaft, by Hans Bernhard-Schmid Reviewed by Robert Schechtman Download PDF Review of David Studdert, Conceptualising Community: Beyond the State and Individual. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 221. Cloth $79.95; and Hans […]
Volume 2: Foreword
Volume 2: Foreword TRANSIT’s second issue—Translation and Mobility—explores the spatial movement and linguistic mobility inherent in translation. The articles that comprise this second issue engage the topics of translation and mobility in a number of ways, with two themes emerging as the central areas of inquiry. The first set of questions center around linguistic mobility […]
Wenn die Schweizer Heimat exotisch geworden ist. Das Thema der Heimkehr aus Brasilien bei deutschschweizerischen Autoren / by Jeroen Dewulf
Wenn die Schweizer Heimat exotisch geworden ist. Das Thema der Heimkehr aus Brasilien bei deutschschweizerischen Autoren Jeroen Dewulf Download PDF Abstract: Wenn in einem schweizerischen Kontext von einer Heimkehr aus Brasilien die Rede ist, stellen sich unvermeidlich Assoziationen zu Gottfried Kellers “Martin Salander” (1886) ein. Doch während Keller die Rückkehr und Reintegration seines Protagonisten in […]