Translations from the Poetic Archives of Migration
TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Deniz Göktürk Download PDF In spring 2021, the seminar on Archival Resistance in Modern German Literature evolved as a small but intense research collective entirely online, utilizing Zoom, a course website on bCourses, shared documents on GoogleDocs, and a blog on the Multicultural Germany Project website. The participants of the […]
Ten Years After Fukushima
by Yoko Tawada TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Elizabeth Sun Download PDF What is the half-life of Caesium? 30 years? How long does it take Plutonium to decay in half? 24,000 years? Uranium takes as long as 4.5 billion years. I cannot bear this idea. I close my eyes, defiantly telling myself that […]
Night Bioscope
“Night Bioscope”[1] by Yoko Tawada TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Aaron Carpenter and Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF A man stood before me, he pointed with his pointer finger approximately at the place where his heart probably lay and said:[2] “She.”[3] My funny bone twitched; I was confused. “Are you feminine?”“No, not anymore.” He […]
Translator Introduction
TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Aaron Carpenter and Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Yoko Tawada’s short story “Bioskoop der Nacht” from her 2002 collection Überseezungen remains prescient in a world which is currently demanding interventions from a diversity of perspectives. Tawada’s works frequently highlight global travel to examine how one’s identity—particularly as a foreigner—can be shaped […]
Of Women and Polyglots: Yoko Tawada’s “Where Europe Begins” and Rosi Braidotti’s Transnational Feminist Nomadology
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Pascale LaFountain Download PDF Abstract Yoko Tawada’s “Where Europe Begins” explores identity formation and boundary crossings through the depiction of international travel, feminine subjectivity, and multilingual play. The story thus intimates the core issues that Rosi Braidotti later describes as elements of a “nomadic aesthetic,” an aesthetic particularly suited for […]
In the Postmonolingual Condition: Karin Sander’s Wordsearch and Yoko Tawada’s Wordplay
Yasemin Yildiz Download PDF Abstract: The last two decades have seen a rapid increase in multilingual cultural productions in many different contexts. Frequently, the multilingual make-up of these literary, cinematic, musical, and artistic works has been celebrated as an expression of cultural heterogeneity, pluralism, cosmopolitanism, and hybridity. This essay, however, argues that the meaning produced […]
Sonderzeichen Yoko Tawada: Ein Briefwechsel zwischen Susan Bernofsky und Bernard Banoun
Download PDF Abstract: An exchange of letters, written in German, between Bernard Banoun and Susan Bernofsky, addressing issues relating to translation, and particularly to their translations of the works of Yoko Tawada into French and English, respectively. 7. März 2010 Liebe Frau Bernofsky, lieber Herr Banoun, Vielen Dank für Ihre Teilnahme an diesem Gespräch. Bei […]
A Conversation with Bernard Banoun
Kurt Beals, Erik Born, Robin Ellis, and Deniz Göktürk Download PDF Abstract: A conversation with the translator and scholar Bernard Banoun. The following conversation took place in Berkeley on October 29, 2009. Bernard Banoun has translated the works of numerous German writers into French, including novels and prose by Thomas Jonigk, Werner Kofler, Yoko Tawada, […]
Traveling without Moving: Physical and Linguistic Mobility in Yoko Tawada’s Überseezungen
Christina Kraenzle Download PDF Abstract: Travel and translation constitute the primary focus of Yoko Tawada’s literary production. Many of Tawada’s German-language works are travel stories that consider the models of subjectivity enabled by travel across spaces and languages. This essay considers how her works investigate the interconnectedness of mobility, geography, language and identity, and how […]