Dear Readers, It is my privilege to present the second issue of the thirteenth volume of TRANSIT on Archival Engagement. This theme is inspired by an ongoing series titled “Archives of Migration: The Power of Fiction in Times of Fake … Continue reading
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Escaping the Hamster Wheel: Creative Remembrance in Traveling Archives TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2 Deniz Göktürk Download PDF Abstract How can one find meaning in the scattered fragments that remain from a life? For me, this question arose full force … Continue reading
BOOK REVIEW DisOrientations by Kristin Dickinson TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2 Download PDF Dickinson, Kristen. DisOrientations: German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation, 1811-1946. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 2021. 257 pages. In a work that parses the literary, philosophical and political reflections … Continue reading
Archival Dispersals: Literary Magazines as Mobile and Fragmentary Archives TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2 Mert Bahadır Reisoğlu Download PDF Abstract This article reconceptualizes the fragmentary status of the archive of migration by focusing on Turkish German literary magazines Ezgi, Parantez, … Continue reading
The Digital Archive of Diaspora: Blogging (Post)Migration TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2 Linda Maeding Download PDF Abstract Transnational diaspora groups make intensive use of community media when communicating and connecting in cyberspace. In particular, I argue that blogs constitute a … Continue reading
Memory Meetings: Semra Ertan’s Ausländer and the Practice of the Migrant Archive TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2 Sultan Doughan Download PDF Abstract Turkish migration to Germany has long been debated as not having been sufficiently documented and given an adequate … Continue reading
Counterarchives, Appropriation and the Disobedient Gaze: Archival Structures in Ursula Biemann’s Contained Mobilityand Charles Heller’s & Lorenzo Pezzani’s Death by Rescue TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2 Anna-Maria Senuysal Download PDF Abstract In the past twenty years, an abundance of video … Continue reading
“Almanya: A [Different] Future is Possible” Defying Narratives of Return in Fatma Aydemir’s Ellbogen TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2 Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Abstract This paper investigates the theme of returning ‘home’ in Fatma Aydemir’s 2017 novel, Ellbogen, arguing that the … Continue reading
Introduction: Reexamining Turkish German Archive(s) TRANSIT vol. 13, no.2 Ela Gezen and Mert Bahadır Reisoğlu Download PDF This cluster emerged from a GSA (German Studies Association) conference panel series that aimed to (re)examine the Turkish German archive by specifically taking … Continue reading
BOOK REVIEW Asian Fusion by Caroline Rupprecht TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2 Download PDF Rupprecht, Caroline. Asian Fusion: New Encounters in the Asian-German Avant-Garde.New York: Peter Lang, 2020. 264 pages. As Chunjie Zhang et. al. observe in their field-defining article, … Continue reading