TRANSIT 8.2: Foreword Dear Readers, We are pleased to announce the publication of the second installment of texts in our 2012–13 volume, including a series of articles on “Participatory Media and Public Memory.” The impetus for this volume was our … Continue reading
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“A Wall Victim from the West”: Migration, German Division, and Multidirectional Memory in Kreuzberg Jeffrey Jurgens Download PDF Abstract: Focusing on the 1975 drowning death of Çetin Mert, the five-year-old son of a Turkish guest worker family, this essay explores the … Continue reading
Re-Imagining the Past in Transnational Online Communities Kaarina Nikunen Download PDF Abstract: This essay examines transnational online communities as sites of identity, belonging and memory. It looks at the ways in which memories are circulated, shared and created within these … Continue reading
Countermemory and the (Turkish-)German Theatrical Archive: Reading the Documentary Remains of Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Karagöz in Alamania (1986) Lizzie Stewart Download PDF Editor’s Note: Due to copyright restrictions, images for this article are only available in the secure PDF. Abstract: Theatre … Continue reading
Lost: Black Briefcase Enis Batur Translated by Oya Erez Download PDF Acknowledgements: Translation of Enis Batur, “Siyah Bir Çanta Aranıyor (1982),” Babil Yazıları (Istanbul: AFA Yayınları, 1986), 79–81. A question that has long preoccupied the creative person: what degree of permanence is there … Continue reading
Alwan’s Quest of Home: Re-Mapping Heimat and the Nation in Hussain Al-Mozany’s Der Marschländer: Bagdad–Beirut–Berlin Yasemin Mohammad Download PDF Abstract: The German-Iraqi writer Hussain Al-Mozany’s novel Der Marschländer (1999) makes an important contribution to German transnational literature by its productive critical engagement … Continue reading
European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, by Fatima El-Tayeb Reviewed by Priscilla Layne Download PDF El-Tayeb, Fatima. European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 253 pages. Paper, $25. The issue of race has … Continue reading
Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition, by Yasemin Yildiz Reviewed by Christina Butler Download PDF Yasemin Yildiz, Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. Cloth, $55.00. Yasemin Yildiz has provided a much-needed new … Continue reading
Kiezdeutsch: Ein neuer Dialekt entsteht, by Heike Wiese Reviewed by Lindsay Preseau Download PDF Heike Wiese, Kiezdeutsch: Ein neuer Dialekt entsteht. München: Beck, 2012. Pp. 280. Paper, 12,95 €. Linguist Heike Wiese has been researching the German urban youth dialect … Continue reading