Looks / by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah / translated by Jonas Teupert | TRANSIT
Looks by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jonas Teupert Download PDF Back to “Love” or continue on to “Insult” by Enrico Ippolito. A friend and I walk through the museum quarter of a West-German city, surrounded by a throng of tourists. There are plenty of attractions here, but none seems […]
Love / by Sharon Dodua Otoo / translated by Adrienne Merritt | TRANSIT
Love by Sharon Dodua Otoo TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Adrienne Merritt Download PDF Back to “Trust” or continue on to “Looks” by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. Love is…about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun. – bell hooks Before I became a mother, I didn’t have […]
Trust / by Deniz Utlu / translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi | TRANSIT
Trust by Deniz Utlu TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Work” or continue on to “Love” by Sharon Dodua Otoo. – 1 –The year I took my high school exit exams,[i] U.S. forces brought Murat Kurnaz of Bremen, Germany to Guantánamo, mistakenly believing him to be a […]
Work / by Fatma Aydemir / translated by Be Schierenberg | TRANSIT
Work by Fatma Aydemir TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Be Schierenberg Download PDF Back to “Visible” or continue on to “Trust” by Deniz Utlu. Fake smile, harem pants flowing, she comes bouncing towards me and says she gets it now: why I had gotten the interview. “MIGRANT BONUS!” Her words hit me […]
Visible / by Sasha Marianna Salzman / translated by Lou Silhol-Macher | TRANSIT
Visible by Sasha Marianna Salzmann TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Lou Silhol-Macher Download PDF Back to “Translators’ Introduction” or continue on to “Work” by Fatma Aydemir. I will never know what it means to be invisible. I will never know how it is to be able to kiss carelessly in the park, […]
Foreword to the Collection / Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah / translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi | TRANSIT
Foreword to the Collection by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Foreword to the Translations” or continue on to “Translators’ Introduction” by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Michael Sandberg. In March of 2018, Germany introduced its so-called Ministry of Heimat, which could be translated as […]
Translators’ Introduction / by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Michael Sandberg | TRANSIT
Translators’ Introduction by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Michael Sandberg TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Download PDF Back to “Foreword to the Collection” or continue on to “Visible” by Sasha Marianna Salzmann. Working on a translation project of this scale has been a tremendous honor. We are humbled both by the opportunity to work closely with some […]
TRANSIT 11.2: Foreword | TRANSIT
TRANSIT 11.2: Foreword Reflections on (a) Changing Europe Dear Readers, It is my privilege to introduce the second issue of the eleventh volume of TRANSIT Journal. As a second installment of our ten-year anniversary volume, we continue the discussions fostered by our CFP: Reflections on (a) Changing Europe. Representing both continuity and innovation, this issue […]
Eine wohltuende Unsicherheit: On Naming and Authenticity in the Works of Milena Michiko Flašar / by Edward Muston | TRANSIT
Eine wohltuende Unsicherheit: On Naming and Authenticity in the Works of Milena Michiko Flašar TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Edward Muston Download PDF Acknowledgments I am very grateful to Fatima Naqvi for introducing me to Flašar’s works. I am also indebted to the editors and reviewers for helping improve this article with their thoughtful comments […]
Sharing Fugitive Lives / by Jonas Teupert | TRANSIT
Sharing Fugitive Lives: Digital Encounters in Senthuran Varatharajah’s Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Jonas Teupert Download PDF Abstract In Senthuran Varatharajah’s novel Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen, two members of a cosmopolitan academic sphere jetting around the globe to attend conferences contingently “meet” in the unlocatable space of Facebook where they initiate […]