BOOK REVIEW: White Rebels in Black by Priscilla Layne / Reviewed by Dinah Lensing-Sharp | TRANSIT

BOOK REVIEW White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture by Priscilla Layne TRANSIT 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, … Continue reading

Animals in Architecture / trans. by Bradley A. Schmidt | TRANSIT

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, … Continue reading

Dodos on the Run: Requiem for a Lost Bestiary / trans. by Jon Cho-Polizzi | TRANSIT

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 … Continue reading

Record of a Human Jungle / by Charles Desmet | TRANSIT

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, … Continue reading

Not Another Exilic Movie: Alienation and the Everyday in Shahid Saless’s Reifezeit and Tagebuch eines Liebenden / by Kumars Salehi | TRANSIT

Not Another Exilic Movie: Alienation and the Everyday in Shahid Saless’s Reifezeit and Tagebuch eines Liebenden TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 1 Kumars Salehi Download PDF Abstract When Sohrab Shahid Saless has been acknowledged, he has generally been placed between nations, … Continue reading

Migration as Textual Strategy / by Lauren Hansen | TRANSIT

Migration as Textual Strategy in Barbara Honigmann’s Eine Liebe aus Nichts (1991) TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 1 Lauren Hansen Download PDF Abstract Second-generation authors of German family novels have been increasingly on the move in their literary works ever since German unification … Continue reading

Multidirectional Memory and Verwobene Geschichte / a Conversation with Iman Attia and Michael Rothberg | TRANSIT

Multidirectional Memory and Verwobene Geschichte(n) [Entangled (Hi)stories] TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 1  A Conversation between Iman Attia and Michael Rothberg Translation of Iman Attia’s Contribution by Melody Makeda Ledwon Download PDF Abstract This conversation between the German critical race theorist … Continue reading

Willkommenskultur / by Sabina Hartnett | TRANSIT

Willkommenskultur: A Computational and Socio-linguistic Study of Modern German Discourse on Migrant Populations TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 1 Sabina Hartnett Download PDF Abstract In the lingering wake of the European Refugee Crisis of 2015, population demographics within Germany’s borders continue … Continue reading

Weltstadt — Erinnerung und Zukunft von Geflüchteten im Modell

WELTSTADT — Erinnerung und Zukunft von Geflüchteten im Modell (WORLD CITY: Refugees’ Memories and Futures as Models)   About the Project: From September 2016 to March 2017, S27 – Art and Education held eight xed and mobile model-making workshops in … Continue reading