Stefan Zweig’s Fear of Postcolonialism
TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 1 Ashwin Manthripragada Download PDF Abstract On July 1, 1909 in a professed act of patriotism to his Indian motherland, Madar Lal Dhingra, a nationalist revolutionary studying in England, assassinated Sir William Curzon Wyllie, political aide-de-camp to the Secretary of State of India. Twelve days later, Stefan Zweig responded to this […]
How Does Arriving Feel? Modulating a Cinematic Sense of Commonality
TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 1 Hauke Lehmann Download PDF Abstract The essay begins by identifying basic problems in current research on so-called “Turkish-German cinema.” It argues that current research is dominated by a representational understanding of the cinematic image which produces false conclusions regarding the relation between cinematic images and social reality, and that “Turkish-German […]
Celestial Desires and Earthly Migrations: Love, Poetry, and Agency in Özdamar’s Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde
TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 1 Elizabeth Mittman Download PDF Abstract Previous scholarship on the final installment in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Istanbul-Berlin trilogy has issued largely along two trajectories, pursuing questions of migration and transnationalism on the one hand and German memory politics on the other. What has been overlooked in the process is the text’s […]
Ungehaltene neue deutsche Literatur: Ein Interview mit Deniz Utlu
TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 1 Daniel Schreiner PDF herunterladen English Translation Einführung Interview mit Deniz Utlu, Autor von Essays, Theaterstücken sowie des Romans Die Ungehaltenen (Graf Verlag, München, 2014), Herausgeber des Kultur- und Gesellschaftmagazins freitext. Das Interview wurde in Berlin, kurz nach dem Erscheinen seines Debüt-Romans von Daniel Schreiner, Universität Bonn, geführt. Das Interview war […]
Unbeholden New German Literature: An Interview with Deniz Utlu
TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 1 Daniel Schreiner Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF German Original Introduction An interview with Deniz Utlu, author of numerous essays and plays, as well as the recent novel, Die Ungehaltenen (Graf Verlag, München, 2014), and editor of the culture and society magazine, freitext. The interview was conducted in Berlin by […]
Who Said Heimat? I’m Only Renting
by Selim Özdoğan TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 1 Introduction and Interview by Kristin Dickinson Translated by Milena Beltrama, Brittany Boyle, Brandon Cummings, Kristen Datta, Hannah Kelley-Watkins, Nathan Korth, Edward Kosta, Ted Ma, James Margard, Sydney McConnell, and Sabrina Walker Download PDF Introduction Throughout the Fall semester 2016, the Department of German at the University of Michigan hosted Selim […]
TRANSIT 10:2: Foreword | TRANSIT
Dear Readers, We are pleased to announce the publication of the second installment of texts for our 2015–16 tenth anniversary volume. The articles in this publication begin with a continuation of the thematic of Barriers from Volume 10.1; these are followed by two literary translations and complimented by a special topic collection of essays entitled […]
Preface
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Nina Berman Download PDF Nina, good to hear from you. I think it’s best not to meditate too much about one’s life, if it’s good or bad or strange . . . who knows. I am busy doing 20 different things that keep me totally but productively superficial; I have […]
“The Future of the Past,” an Introduction
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Susanne Baackmann and Nancy P. Nenno Download PDF Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank Professor Deniz Göktürk for generously supporting both the symposium and the publication of some of the papers presented at this event dedicated to “The Future of the Past.” Gratitude is also due to Jon Cho-Polizzi for his outstanding […]
Keep Moving! Strategien der Wegmobilisierung als Teil des italienischen Migrationsmanagements
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Federica Benigni und Marika Pierdicca Download PDF Abstract „Wegmobilisieren“ bezieht sich auf eine staatliche Praxis der impliziten Abschiebung von Migrant_innen aus dem italienischen Territorium in andere EU-Räume. Anhand grenzpolitischer Strategien im Rahmen der von Italien proklamierten Emergenza Nordafrica (Notstand Nordafrika, 2011-2013) lässt sich nachvollziehen, dass das EU-Migrationsmanagement nicht primär bzw. […]