Greek Dispossession Staged, or When Street Politics Meets the Theater / by Olivia Landry | TRANSIT
Greek Dispossession Staged, or When Street Politics Meets the Theater TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Olivia Landry Download PDF Abstract Revisiting the historically rich relationship between theater and politics in the wake of worldwide protest movements at the turn of the last decade, this essay examines what theater can still do for street politics. With […]
The Currency of Europe? Representing Unified Europe as Film in the Age of the Euro / by Sasha Rossman | TRANSIT
The Currency of Europe? Representing Unified Europe as Film in the Age of the Euro TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Sasha Rossman Download PDF Abstract This paper addresses attempts to invent a representational form for Europe in the early 2000s. This was a key period of European Union expansion during which the Euro was introduced […]
Visualizing the Railway Space in Fontane’s Effi Briest / by Paul Youngman, et al. | TRANSIT
Visualizing the Railway Space in Fontane’s Effi Briest TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Paul Youngman, Gabrielle Tremo, Lenny Enkhbold, and Lizzy Stanton Download PDF Abstract Is visualization interpretation? It is a question not traditionally posed in humanities research—an area of study in which words on paper historically have been seen as the primary medium through […]
Of Women and Polyglots: Yoko Tawada’s “Where Europe Begins” and Rosi Braidotti’s Transnational Feminist Nomadology / by Pascale LaFountain | TRANSIT
Of Women and Polyglots: Yoko Tawada’s “Where Europe Begins” and Rosi Braidotti’s Transnational Feminist Nomadology TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Pascale LaFountain Download PDF Abstract Yoko Tawada’s “Where Europe Begins” explores identity formation and boundary crossings through the depiction of international travel, feminine subjectivity, and multilingual play. The story thus intimates the core issues that Rosi Braidotti […]
If I Should Die / Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi | TRANSIT
If I Should Die by José F.A. Oliver Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Acknowledgments This particular translation was first presented during a cooperative and interlingual workshop entitled “Loops of Mig:ration” held on the UC Berkeley campus in February 2016. The translator would like to give special thanks to the Goethe-Institut San Francisco and the […]
The Indignant / Translated by Katy Derbyshire | TRANSIT
The Indignant by Deniz Utlu Translated by Katy Derbyshire Download PDF Translator’s Introduction I wrote this translation for an event at Schöneberg Town Hall, the site of Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech. Deniz Utlu was invited to read and speak as a voice of his generation: a postmigrant youth with no sense of hold, […]
Between Victim and Perpetrator Imaginary: The Implicated Subject in Works by Rachel Seiffert and Cate Shortland / by Susanne Baackmann | TRANSIT
Between Victim and Perpetrator Imaginary: The Implicated Subject in Works by Rachel Seiffert and Cate Shortland TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Susanne Baackmann Download PDF Abstract The future of Germany’s murderous past is now being reconsidered by a new generation of artists who have to navigate an increasing distance to the Third Reich and its […]
Dada Futures: Inflation, Speculation, and Uncertainty in Der Dada No. 1 / by Kurt Beals | TRANSIT
Dada Futures: Inflation, Speculation, and Uncertainty in Der Dada No. 1 TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Kurt Beals Download PDF Abstract This article discusses the magazine Der Dada No. 1, published in 1919 by Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baader, arguing that a central concern throughout the issue is the future and its manifest uncertainty. Der […]
From Colonial to Neoliberal Times: German Agents of Tourism Development and Business in Diani, Kenya / by Nina Berman | TRANSIT
From Colonial to Neoliberal Times: German Agents of Tourism Development and Business in Diani, Kenya TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Nina Berman Download PDF Abstract This essay traces the role of Germans in various economic developments on the Kenyan coast over the past fifty years, focusing on one of Kenya’s most prominent tourism resort areas […]
Generation Mini-Series: Contemporary German Historical Event-Television and the Implications of its Interactive Elements / by Sara F. Hall | TRANSIT
Generation Mini-Series: Contemporary German Historical Event-Television and the Implications of its Interactive Elements TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Sara F. Hall Download PDF Abstract The controversial 2012 ZDF mini-series Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter/Generation War epitomizes German “historical event television,” a broadcasting trend aligned with the recent tendency to normalize the nation’s relationship with its past. Reaching […]