Lost: Black Briefcase / by Enis Batur / Translated by Oya Erez
Lost: Black Briefcase Enis Batur Translated by Oya Erez Download PDF Acknowledgements: Translation of Enis Batur, “Siyah Bir Çanta Aranıyor (1982),” Babil Yazıları (Istanbul: AFA Yayınları, 1986), 79–81. A question that has long preoccupied the creative person: what degree of permanence is there in what I do? Will I, who am anyway impermanent, manage to be “a pleasant […]
Alwan's Quest of Home: Re-Mapping Heimat and the Nation in Hussain Al-Mozany’s Der Marschländer: Bagdad–Beirut–Berlin / by Yasemin Mohammad
Alwan’s Quest of Home: Re-Mapping Heimat and the Nation in Hussain Al-Mozany’s Der Marschländer: Bagdad–Beirut–Berlin Yasemin Mohammad Download PDF Abstract: The German-Iraqi writer Hussain Al-Mozany’s novel Der Marschländer (1999) makes an important contribution to German transnational literature by its productive critical engagement with an ethno-cultural understanding of German nationhood. The novel is based on the travel experiences […]
European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, by Fatima El-Tayeb / Reviewed by Priscilla Layne
European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, by Fatima El-Tayeb Reviewed by Priscilla Layne Download PDF El-Tayeb, Fatima. European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 253 pages. Paper, $25. The issue of race has stubbornly haunted postwar Europe, complicating Germany’s transition from fascist dictatorship to democratic nation, France’s legacy […]
Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition, by Yasemin Yildiz / Reviewed by Christina Butler
Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition, by Yasemin Yildiz Reviewed by Christina Butler Download PDF Yasemin Yildiz, Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. Cloth, $55.00. Yasemin Yildiz has provided a much-needed new look into the recent discourse on multilingualism and monolingualism. Rather than perpetuating a multilingual-monolingual dichotomy, […]
Kiezdeutsch: Ein neuer Dialekt entsteht, by Heike Wiese / Reviewed by Lindsay Preseau
Kiezdeutsch: Ein neuer Dialekt entsteht, by Heike Wiese Reviewed by Lindsay Preseau Download PDF Heike Wiese, Kiezdeutsch: Ein neuer Dialekt entsteht. München: Beck, 2012. Pp. 280. Paper, 12,95 €. Linguist Heike Wiese has been researching the German urban youth dialect called Kiezdeutsch (literally translated as ‘neighborhood German,’ and reminiscent of English terms such as ‘hood […]
Orienting Europe
Orienting Europe Download PDF The following book reviews emerged from “Orienting Europe,” a graduate seminar led by Deniz Göktürk at the University of California, Berkeley, in Fall 2011. The seminar analyzed constructions of Europe in moving-image media, with a particular focus on migration and mobility, practices of orientation, modes of spectatorship, and public formations. Screenings […]
The Visit / by Hakan Savaş Mican / Translated by Erik Born
The Visit Hakan Savaş Mican Translated by Erik Born Download PDF Read the German text. Acknowledgements: This text originally appeared in freitext, no. 18 (October 2011). Der Besuch premiered at the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse on December 13, 2008, and was renewed on September 13, 2011. http://vimeo.com/28017101 Characters Ada wants to sell the property that she inherited in Berlin and buy a […]
Angry Birds Sing (Excerpts): A Correspondence Between the Angry Birds (Marianna Salzmann, Deniz Utlu) / Translated by Jenna Ingalls
Angry Birds Sing (Excerpts) A Correspondence Between the Angry Birds (Marianna Salzmann, Deniz Utlu) Translated by Jenna Ingalls Download PDF Read the German text. Acknowledgements: This text originally appeared in freitext, no. 18 (October 2011). we’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year running over the same old ground what have […]
The One Who Loves the Sound of Words / by Selim Özdoğan / Translated by Sultan Doughan
The One Who Loves the Sound of Words Selim Özdoğan Translated by Sultan Doughan Download PDF Read the German text. Acknowledgements: This text originally appeared in freitext, no. 18 (October 2011). I should have listened to my father. The first time I played him my track he said, “What the hell is this? This isn’t even […]
They Misoverestimate Us: On the Attempt to Throw a Middle Class Pearl Necklace like a Lasso Around the Ballhaus Naunynstraße – A Comedy / by Marianna Salzmann / Translated by Robin Ellis
They Misoverestimate Us: On the Attempt to Throw a Middle Class Pearl Necklace like a Lasso Around the Ballhaus Naunynstraße – A Comedy Marianna Salzmann Translated by Robin Ellis Download PDF Read the German text. Acknowledgements: This text originally appeared in freitext, no. 18 (October 2011). http://vimeo.com/19538758/ Laughter: is an innate expressive human behavior that develops […]