Looks
by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jonas Teupert Download PDF Back to “Love” or continue on to “Insult” by Enrico Ippolito. A friend and I walk through the museum quarter of a West-German city, surrounded by a throng of tourists. There are plenty of attractions here, but none seems to […]
Love
by Sharon Dodua Otoo TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Adrienne Merritt Download PDF Back to “Trust” or continue on to “Looks” by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. Love is…about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun. – bell hooks Before I became a mother, I didn’t have any […]
Trust
by Deniz Utlu TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Work” or continue on to “Love” by Sharon Dodua Otoo. – 1 – The year I took my high school exit exams,[i] U.S. forces brought Murat Kurnaz of Bremen, Germany to Guantánamo, mistakenly believing him to be a […]
Work
by Fatma Aydemir TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Be Schierenberg Download PDF Back to “Visible” or continue on to “Trust” by Deniz Utlu. Fake smile, harem pants flowing, she comes bouncing towards me and says she gets it now: why I had gotten the interview. “MIGRANT BONUS!” Her words hit me like […]
Visible
by Sasha Marianna Salzmann TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Lou Silhol-Macher Download PDF Back to “Translators’ Introduction” or continue on to “Work” by Fatma Aydemir. I will never know what it means to be invisible. I will never know how it is to be able to kiss carelessly in the park, to […]
Foreward To The Collection
by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Foreword to the Translations” or continue on to “Translators’ Introduction” by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Em Sandberg. In March of 2018, Germany introduced its so-called Ministry of Heimat, which could be translated as Homeland. But not exactly. […]
Translators’ Introduction
by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Em Sandberg TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Download PDF Back to “Foreword to the Collection” or continue on to “Visible” by Sasha Marianna Salzmann. 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 […]
TRANSIT 12.2: Foreword
Dear Readers, I’m honored to present the second issue of the twelfth volume of TRANSIT Journal: “Landscapes of Migration.” As a continuation of last year’s project, this issue’s scholarly and literary works seek to investigate rapidly changing demographics, contested geopolitical borders and histories that shape human relationships to immediate environments. Indeed, the term “landscapes,” however […]
Together
Click here to visit the full volume of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2021). by Simone Dede Ayivi TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by EM Sandberg Download PDF 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 on […]
Gegenwartsbewältigung [Overcoming The Present]
Click here to visit the full volume of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2021). by Max Czollek TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF 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 […]