Traveling Forms | TRANSIT
CFP TRANSIT Journal: Volume 13.1 2020-2021: Traveling Forms Due to numerous requests, TRANSIT has extended the deadline for submissions to October 11, 2020. As a pandemic and international solidarity for Black Lives Matter demand reckoning with crises of a global scale, this call for papers proposes to rethink German Studies in its constitutive contradiction: formed […]
TRANSIT 12.2: Foreword
Dear Readers, I’m honored to present the second issue of the twelfth volume of TRANSIT Journal: “Landscapes of Migration.” As a continuation of last year’s project, this issue’s scholarly and literary works seek to investigate rapidly changing demographics, contested geopolitical borders and histories that shape human relationships to immediate environments. Indeed, the term “landscapes,” however […]
Together / Simone Dede Ayivi / translated by Michael Sandberg | TRANSIT
Click here to visit the full volume of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2021). Together by Simone Dede Ayivi TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Michael Sandberg Download PDF Ever since I’ve been able to think, I’ve been writing shitlists: Capitalism is on there. Racism, sexism. But also no champagne after premieres, drunk people […]
Gegenwartsbewältigung / Max Czollek / translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi | TRANSIT
Click here to visit the full volume of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2021). Gegenwartsbewältigung [Overcoming the Present] by Max Czollek TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF A short while back, I received the following email: “We would like to invite you to a debate. Our topic is: How does […]
Food / Vina Yun / translated by Thomas B. Fuhr and Wojtek Gornicki | TRANSIT
Click here to visit the full volume of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2021). Food by Vina Yun TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Thomas B. Fuhr and Wojtek Gornicki Download PDF “Oh, yeah, yeah,” K-Pop superstar Jay Park croons. “Oh, the wholesome samgyetang, the sweet-and-sour galbi jjim. Haemul pajeon on rainy days, andong […]
Privileges / Olga Grjasnowa / translated by Allison García | TRANSIT
Click here to visit the full volume of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2021). Privileges by Olga Grjasnowa TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Allison García Download PDF One of the greatest privileges in life is the ability to choose who you want to be. There is a kind of privilege that lies in […]
Looks / Hengameh Yaghoobifarah / translated by Jonas Teupert | TRANSIT
Click here to visit the full volume of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2021). Looks by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Jonas Teupert Download PDF A friend and I walk through the museum quarter of a West-German city, surrounded by a bunch of tourists. There are plenty of exhibitions, but none […]
Trust / by Deniz Utlu / translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi | TRANSIT
Click here to visit the full volume of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2021). Trust by Deniz Utlu TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF – 1 – The year I took my high school exit exams,[1] U.S. forces brought Murat Kurnaz of Bremen, Germany to Guantánamo, mistakenly believing him to […]
Work / by Fatma Aydemir / translated by Be Schierenberg | TRANSIT
Click here to visit the full volume of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2021). Work by Fatma Aydemir TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Be Schierenberg Download PDF 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 […]
Visible / by Sasha Marianna Salzman / translated by Lou Silhol-Macher | TRANSIT
Click here to visit the full volume of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2021). Visible by Sasha Marianna Salzmann TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Lou Silhol-Macher Download PDF 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 […]