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Translation/Your Homeland is Our Nightmare

Forward to the Translations

by Jon Cho-Polizzi TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Download PDF Back to Your Homeland is Our Nightmare or continue on to “Foreword to the Collection” by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. It is a great privilege to introduce this second (and now complete) issue of TRANSIT Journal’s digital publication of Your Homeland is Our […]

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December 5, 2021
Translation/Your Homeland is Our Nightmare

Together

by Simone Dede Ayivi TRANSIT vol. Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by em Sandberg Download PDF Back to “Overcoming the Present” or return to Your Homeland is Our Nightmare. 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 […]

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December 4, 2021
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Overcoming the Present [Gegenwartsbewältigung]

by Max Czollek TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Sex” or continue on to “Together” by Simone Dede Ayivi. A short while back, I received the following email: “We would like to invite you to a debate. Our topic is: How does one deal with German guilt as […]

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December 4, 2021
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Sex

by Reyhan Şahin TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Didem Uca Download PDF Back to “Language” or continue on to “Overcoming the Present” by Max Czollek. Smack! go my Turkish-German pussy lips. Smack, smack, when I let them flourish and thrive like an outlaw. Smack, smack, smack, when they’re wet and feeling boundless […]

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December 4, 2021
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Language

by Margarete Stokowski TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Food” or continue on to “Sex” by Reyhan Şahin. Allegedly, in China, at the end of 2018, the first genetically altered humans were born. This news unleashed a worldwide shockwave of criticism, and the Chinese government forbade the […]

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December 4, 2021
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Food

by Vina Yun TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Thomas B. Fuhr and Wojtek Gornicki Download PDF Back to “Privileges” or continue on to “Language” by Margarete Stokowski. “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 jjimdak on those […]

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December 4, 2021
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Privileges

by Olga Grjasnowa TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Allison García Download PDF Back to “Dangerous” or continue on to “Food” by Vina Yun. 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 the discrepancy between […]

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December 4, 2021
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Dangerous

by Nadia Shehadeh TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Elizabeth Sun Download PDF Back to “Home” or continue on to “Privileges” by Olga Grjasnowa. Anyway the wind blows, Doesn’t really matter to me,To me. – Freddie Mercury I grew up in a small town in East Westphalia which—in addition to a cute historic […]

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December 4, 2021
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Home

by Mithu Sanyal TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Didem Uca Download PDF Back to “Insult” or continue on to “Dangerous” by Nadia Shehadeh. Talking about this has become something of a cliché, because surely by now even the last person on earth should know that the question “But where are you really […]

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December 4, 2021
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Insult

by Enrico Ippolito TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by EM Sandberg Download PDF Back to “Looks” or continue on to “Home” by Mithu Sanyal. How many times had he heard it now? Twenty? Three thousand? However many times it’s been, he can’t count the number with just two hands. Every visit to the […]

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December 4, 2021

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Volumes

Volume 14.2 Borderlands

Volume 14.1 Borderlands

Volume 13.2 Archival Engagements

Special Issue: Homeland

Volume 13.1 Traveling Forms

Volume 12.2 Landscapes of Migration

Volume 12.1 Landscapes of Migration

Volume 11.2 Reflections on a Changing Europe

Volume 11.1 Reflections on a Changing Europe

Volume 10.2 The Future of the Past

Volume 10.1 The Digital German Humanities & Barriers

Volume 9.2 Contemporary Remediations

Volume 9.1 Das neue Deutschland

Volume 8.2 Participatory Media and Public Memory

Volume 8.1 Open Forum

Volume 7 Cosmopolitical and Transnational Interventions

Volume 6 TRANSIT at the GSA

Volume 5 Translingual Encounters

Volume 4 Multicultural Europe

Volume 3 Changing Communities

Volume 2 Translation and Mobility

Volume 1 Migration, Culture, and the Nation State

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