BOOK REVIEW: Asian Fusion by Caroline Rupprecht / Reviewed by Qingyang Freya Zhou | TRANSIT
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, the new research area of Asian German studies has garnered much attention from scholars in […]
After Flight / by Ilija Trojanow / translated by Ambika Athreya | TRANSIT
After Flight by Ilija Trojanow TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2 Translated by Ambika Athreya Download PDF For more TRANSIT translations on migration and homeland, see the Homeland Special Issue. Translator’s Introduction Ilija Trojanow was born in 1965 in Sofia, Bulgaria and emigrated in 1971 to West Germany, where his family sought political asylum. Since then he has lived […]
Fears / by Lena Gorelik / translated by Nat Modlin | TRANSIT
Fearsby Lena Gorelik TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2 Translated by Nat Modlin Download PDF Translator’s Introduction Published in 2015, “Fears” grapples with the immediate aftermath of the so-called “refugee crisis” in Germany.[1]In this short text, Lena Gorelik ironizes her own political correctness by dealing with the intricacies and banalities of being perceived as both an insider […]
“Paranoia als Migrationsdelirium und Vermittlungswahn um 1900: Zu den Aufzeichnungen von Anton Wenzel Grosz” by Elena Meilicke | TRANSIT
Paranoia als Migrationsdelirium und Vermittlungswahn um 1900: Zu den Aufzeichnungen von Anton Wenzel Grosz TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2 Elena Meilicke Download PDF Abstract Anhand eines konkreten Beispiels verdeutlicht mein Aufsatz die Bedeutung und Notwendigkeit einer Archivarbeit, die historisch verdrängte und marginalisierte Artefakte und Dokumente ins Licht rückt: Gegenstand der Analyse sind die handschriftlichen Aufzeichnungen […]
Archival Engagement | TRANSIT
CFP TRANSIT Journal: Volume 13.2 2021-2022: Archival Engagement In the spirit of the ongoing workshop series “Archives of Migration: The Power of Fiction in Times of Fake News,” which features contemporary writers who creatively resist prevailing forms of truth, knowledge, and archival practices, TRANSIT invites investigations into critical and artistic attempts to challenge conceptions of […]
New Visions of Belonging in German Studies
The latest installment in our Mission Possible series of reflections on the future of German Studies comes courtesy of the MGP’s own Elizabeth Sun, who situates Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Ingeborg Bachmann Prize-winning short story “Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin” in the context of recent trends in German literature and film as well as tendencies in […]
Traveling in Pandemic Times: Yoko Tawada and Poetic Border-Crossing
Yoko Tawada’s guest appearance in the third installation of “Archives of Migration” sparked a lively and contemporarily relevant conversation on the potential of poetic border-crossing in pandemic times, where physical mobility has been intensely challenged by closed-off national borders and the anxiety over cross-person contamination. A native of Japan, Tawada writes and publishes prolifically in […]
Imagining the Other Side of Things: Zafer Şenocak and Hidden Archives
MGP editor Elizabeth Sun follows up on our recent event with Zafer Şenocak, interrogating the possibilities for resistance that lie in the counter-hegemonic reconstruction of historical narrative. On Friday, April 2, we welcomed the widely published Turkish-German author Zafer Şenocak to the second installment of “Archives of Migration: The Power of Fiction in Times of […]
Animating Untold Stories: Sharon Dodua Otoo
MGP editor Elizabeth Sun and Ardo Ali, both participants in our new series of Zoom workshops with authors, reflect on the opening event with Berlin-based writer and activist Sharon Dodua Otoo. The first installment (March 5) of the Zoom workshop series “Archives of Migration: The Power of Fiction in Times of Fake News” met an […]