Translators’ Introduction
Click here to visit the full volume of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2021). TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Jon Cho-Polizzi and EM Sandberg Download PDF Working on a translation project of this scale has been a tremendous honor. We are humbled both by the opportunity to work closely with some of the most important, […]
Letting The System Completely Absorb Me Would Be So Much Easier: An Interview with the Novelist-Activist SchwarzRund
TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Patrick Ploschnitzki Download PDF SchwarzRund is a Black Dominican queer femme feminist, active in intersectional education, Black German publishing and spoken word, empowerment around Fatness, Blackness, Queerness, and allyship, and critical media research. In this interview, SchwarzRund speaks about the German publishing world, the role of Black queer […]
Paradigms of Refuge: Reimagining GDR Legacy and International Solidarity in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen (Go, Went, Gone)
TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Anna Horakova Download PDF Abstract This article examines a recent refugee novel, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, ging, gegangen (Go, Went, Gone, 2015) in relation to debates on the refugees who have arrived in contemporary Germany in the context of the so-called “refugee crisis.” The article’s point of departure is Go, Went, […]
Performing Empire: Theater and Colonialism in Caroline Link’s Nirgendwo in Afrika
TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Peter Erickson Download PDF Abstract In Caroline Link’s popular 2001 film Nirgendwo in Afrika, a Jewish family fleeing the Holocaust finds refuge in British-controlled Kenya. Theater plays a crucial role in the film: Members of the Redlich family explicitly call upon one another to engage in roleplaying. They make use […]
Emotionale Landschaften der Migration: Von unsichtbaren Grenzen, Nicht-Ankommen und dem Tod in Stanišićs Herkunft und Varatharajahs Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen
TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Joscha Klueppel Download PDF Abstract Dieser Artikel untersucht die literarische Figuration und Wirkung von emotionalen Landschaften der Migration sowie ihre Schnittpunkte mit geographischen Landschaften anhand der Romane Herkunft (2019) von Saša Stanišić und Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen (2016) von Senthuran Varatharajah. Aufbauend auf dem in der aktuellsten Transit-Ausgabe erarbeiteten […]
Modeling a World City
Modeling a World City TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 1 Deniz Göktürk Download PDF The question of migration and border control has become a litmus test for governments, democracies, and civil societies around the world in recent years. In our era of highspeed digital connectivity people acquire knowledge about the world primarily as long-distance spectators through […]
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 […]
Animals in Architecture
by Sabine Scho TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 1 Translated by Bradley A. Schmidt Download PDF Translator’s Introduction Sabine Scho’s work is hard to pin down. The German publisher of Animals in Architecture—Kookbooks—is largely dedicated to contemporary poetry, perhaps leading one to an over-hasty taxonomy. Upon closer inspection, Scho’s work, in particular Animals in Architecture, is […]
Dodos on the Run: Requiem for a Lost Bestiary
by Mikael Vogel TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 1 Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Translator’s Introduction Is it coincidence or fate that a writer with the last name ‘bird’ would take such interest in his namesake? Perhaps it’s both, but Dodos auf der Flucht. Requiem für ein verlorenes Bestiarium [Dodos on the Run: Requiem for […]
Record of a Human Jungle
TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 1 Charles Desmet Download PDF (Text Only) In 2002, the French Minister of Internal Affairs decided to dismantle a refugee camp in Sangatte, which is near the channel tunnel of Calais, because the camp had been declared unstable due to overpopulation and tensions with the local inhabitants (Mulholland). Nonetheless, after the […]