I Am Not You: On the Need for Distance
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 June J. Hwang Download PDF Abstract One of the main problems in many conversations about race, class, and privilege today is not too much distance, but rather too little. Or to be more precise, too little recognition of the importance distance plays in our interactions with one another. One manifestation […]
The Future of the Distant Past: On Teaching the Pre-modern History of Africans in Europe
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Kristin Kopp Download PDF Abstract In this article, the author argues that the field of German Studies is poised to contribute to both Black Studies and Critical Race Studies through teaching the history of the African diaspora in Europe in the pre-modern era. One promising future direction German Studies might […]
When Texts Travel: Edward Dmytryk’s The Blue Angel (1959) Remake
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Barbara Kosta Download PDF Abstract The following paper explores the relationship between Josef von Sternberg’s 1930 film The Blue Angel and Edward Dmytryk’s 1959 remake to consider what happens when an “original” film is repurposed to address another socio-historical time period, and cultural and national setting. The similarity and, more […]
Ernst Lubitsch & the Transnational Twenties: The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (USA 1927)
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Rick McCormick Download PDF Abstract Ernst Lubitsch epitomized the transnationalism of the cinema in the 1920s as the first German director to come to Hollywood and one who brought over a number of German film artists to Hollywood over the course of the decade. In America he followed developments in […]
Attack of the Cyberzombies: Media, Reconstruction, and the Future of Germany’s Architectural Past
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Rob McFarland Download PDF Abstract While in Frankfurt a few weeks ago, I visited the site of the Dom/Römer project, a series of 35 buildings that are under construction in the historical center of Frankfurt am Main. While most of the buildings are going to be modern interpretations of the […]
Reading the “Schwarz” in the “Schwarz-Rot-Gold”: Black German Studies in the 21st Century
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Nancy P. Nenno Download PDF Abstract In 2016, Black German Studies celebrates the 30th anniversary of the publication of Farbe bekennen: Afrodeutsche Frauen auf den Spuren ihrer Geschichte. The result of the encounter of Black German women in Berlin with Afro-Caribbean American activist-poet Audre Lorde in the mid-1980s, this text […]
Volume 10.1: Foreward
Dear Readers, We are pleased to announce the publication of the first installment of texts for our 2015–2016 Tenth Anniversary Volume. Articles in this publication center around two themes of interest to contemporary German Studies: digital humanities research and the concept of the barrier. These research prompts for TRANSIT emerged out of conferences and panel style […]
PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 1 David D. Kim PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German StudiesPROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with GoethePROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements I would like to thank Deniz Göktürk for approaching me with the idea of […]
PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe
David D. Kim and Nickolas de Carlo PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements We would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers of our essay for […]
PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten
David D. Kim and Mark J. Phillips PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements We thank the two anonymous reviewers for their incisive intervention in our essay. […]