BOOK REVIEW: White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture
by Priscilla LayneTRANSIT vol. 12, no. 1 Download PDF Layne, Priscilla. White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2018. 272 pages. What’s so rebellious about black culture? Over the course of the 20 th century, numerous works of German literature, film, art, and music have […]
BOOK REVIEW: In Permanent Crisis by İpek A. Çelik / Reviewed by Jessica Ruffin | TRANSIT
BOOK REVIEW In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema by İpek A. Çelik TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Download PDF Çelik, İpek A. In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. 206 pages. İpek A. Çelik begins In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary […]
BOOK REVIEW: Black German: An Afro-German Life In The Twentieth Century
by Theodor Michael Translated by Eve Rosenhaft TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Download PDF Michael, Theodor. Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century. Translated by Eve Rosenhaft, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017. 216 pages. Who is a “statesman?” This is the principal question of Theodor Michael’s memoir Deutsch sein und Schwarz dazu. Erinnerung […]
BOOK REVIEW: The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School, by Marco Abel; Christian Petzold, by Jaimey Fisher
Download PDF Abel, Marco. The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School. Rochester: Camden House, 2013. 348 pages. Cloth, $90.00. Fisher, Jaimey. Christian Petzold. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013. 208 pages. Paper, $22.00. “What is the Berlin School?” is the central question for Marco Abel’s most recent book, the first to address the recent trend […]
Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location by Ginette Verstraete
Reviewed by Alex Lambrow Download PDF Ginette Verstraete. Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 220 Pages. Ginette Verstraete’s Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location provides a succinct analysis of a cross-section of the debate concerning the emergent “new European” identity and this identity’s interplay […]
Interkultur, by Mark Terkessidis
Reviewed by Isabel Dzierson Download PDF Mark Terkessidis, Interkultur. Berlin: Edition Suhrkamp, 2010. Pp. 220. Journalist and author Mark Terkessidis develops in his book by the same name, the so-called concept of “Interkultur”—a programmatic change of the perception of German society, which is today facing a diverse and complex reality. Terkessidis challenges the often polemic […]
European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe, ed. Daniela Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg
Reviewed by Özgür Yaren Download PDF Daniela Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg (eds.), European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 321. Hardback, £55.00. As transnational mobility and migration are reconfiguring Europe, their echoes and reverberations in cinema are attracting more and more academic attention. […]
The Naked Eye, by Yōko Tawada, Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
Reviewed by Ashwin Manthripragada Download PDF Yōko Tawada, The Naked Eye. Trans. Susan Bernofsky. New York, NY: New Directions, 2009. Pp. 256. Paper, $13.95. “The gaze of the nameless lens licks the floor like a detective without grammar.” (1) The first paragraph of Yōko Tawada’s The Naked Eye is a blueprint for the novel’s itinerancy, […]
Amerika und die deutschsprachige Literatur nach 1848. Migration — kultureller Austausch — frühe Globalisierung, Christof Hamann, Ute Gerhard, und Walter Grünzweig, Hrsg.
Reviewed by Hinrich C. Seeba Download PDF Christof Hamann, Ute Gerhard, und Walter Grünzweig, Hrsg., Amerika und die deutschsprachige Literatur nach 1848. Migration – kultureller Austausch – frühe Globalisierung. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2009, 296 S., Broschiert, 29,80 €. Wie Amerika am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts als Land der Zukunft gefeiert wurde, weil von seinem technischen […]
Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua, by Allen Wells
Reviewed by Yael Allweil Download PDF Allen Wells, Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. 485. Paper, $27.95. Tropical Zion is a study that aims at large goals. Through a small, forgotten episode of Jewish survival at the hands of a Latin American tyrant, Professor […]