The Figure of the Exiled Writer in Comparison: Intertextuality in Lion Feuchtwanger’s Exil (1940) and Abbas Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008) / by Franziska Wolf | TRANSIT
The Figure of the Exiled Writer in Comparison: Intertextuality in Lion Feuchtwanger’s Exil (1940) and Abbas Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008) TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Franziska Wolf [Related Links: Landon Reitz’s “Meine eigene Geschichte”: Identity Construction Through Reading in Abbas Khider’s Der falsche Inder] Download PDF Abstract Drawing on Genette’s theory of transtextuality, this […]
“Meine eigene Geschichte”: Identity Construction Through Reading in Abbas Khider’s Der falsche Inder / by Landon Reitz | TRANSIT
“Meine eigene Geschichte”: Identity Construction Through Reading in Abbas Khider’s Der falsche Inder TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Landon Reitz [Related Links: Franziska Wolf’s The Figure of the Exiled Writer in Comparison: Intertextuality in Lion Feuchtwanger’s Exil (1940) and Abbas Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008)] Download PDF Abstract This article examines issues of authorship, identity, and narrative […]
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, 2018. 272 pages. What’s so rebellious about black culture? Over the course of the 20 […]
BOOK REVIEW: Black German by Theodor Michael / Reviewed by Molly Krueger and Michael Sandberg | TRANSIT
BOOK REVIEW Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century by Theodor Michael Translated by Eve Rosenhaft TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Download PDF Michael, Theodor. Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century. Translated by Eve Rosenhaft, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017. 216 pages. Who is a “statesman?” This is the principal […]
Stranger Shaming / translated by Ida Sophie Winter | TRANSIT
“Stranger Shaming” by Katja Huber TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Translated by Ida Sophie Winter Download PDF Translator’s Introduction Katja Huber was born in Weilheim in 1971. She has worked for the Bayrischer Rundfunk since 1996, where she has produced and contributed journalistic and literary pieces. She was awarded the Ravensburger Media Prize in 2007, […]
Film Review: Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)
Posted in conjunction with the course Multicultural Germany in fall semester 2015. Author: Kenneth Cromer The Edge of Heaven (2007), directed by German-Turkish director Fatih Akın, is an award-winning German-Turkish film that exemplifies the convergence of German and Turkish cultures in many regards, including heritage, language and lifestyle. Beyond the masterfully crafted intersecting storylines, an […]
Film Review: The Swissmakers (Die Schweizermacher)
Posted in conjunction with the course Multicultural Germany in fall semester 2015. Author: Karla Palos The 1978 film Die Schweizermacher (The Swissmakers) is a good cop/bad cop comedy directed by Rolf Lyssy which dramatizes the bureaucratic exchanges between immigration officials and immigrants applying for Swiss citizenship. The film focuses on two officials: Walo Lüönd, who plays […]
Film Review: Fack ju Göhte (Suck Me Shakespeer)
Posted in conjunction with the course Multicultural Germany in fall semester 2015. Author: Jasmine Giang Fack ju Göhte (Suck Me Shakespeer) is a 2013 German screwball/romantic comedy, directed by Turkish-German director Bora Dağtekin. It proved to be one of the most commercially successful German films of the decade, placing second in gross income in the 2013 German […]
Multicultural Germany Course: Week 6 Summary (Oct. 5 & 7)
Migration brings both culture and religion. This week in our course we focused on religion and secularism, acknowledging the complexity of the terms in context of past and current migrations related to Germany. Our discussion found its beginnings in questions such as: Does religion form part of collective memory? Which conflicts arise around differing religious […]
Multicultural Germany Course: Week 5 Summary (Sept. 28 & 30)
This last week in class, we discussed the idea of German collective memory and screened the film Almanya – Welcome to Germany. The week’s discussions started with how the term “melting pot” was used to describe US culture in the early 1900s. The picture found on the Wikipedia page for the term (The Melting Pot) […]