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 … Continue reading
Jon Cho-Polizzi
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading